Thank you very much Allen, Gary, Ron, Joe, Charles, for your kind comments.
Joe, this is a baby elephant. You pay 20 baht (about 65 cents) for a small bag of sugarcane sticks to feed him/her from your hand. It also understands Thai My GF's mom asked him to dance and lie down, and it followed the instructions
Andrew, love the compositions and the psychedelic colors
Ron, nice geometric compositions and color combinations.
Charles, I knew it was your shots before seeing the name The 2nd shot is my favorite.
Dalegaspi, nice set, especially last photo.
Wow, many beautiful and fantastic photo shared here. It's always a treat in visiting this thread Also thanks to those commented on my photos.
I spent some time in processing the photo below. The people are at least 2-3 stops in the shadow. Made use of LR graduated filter feature to bring up the light in that area. First time trying this feature.
Frezeiss, For distance longer than 3M, this is hardly an issue. DOF mostly will cover it. The one with strong FC will have problem. That requires a careful testing about particular lens to understand the nature of FC. Unless we are talking about latest DSLR D700/800, 5DIII, other mirrorless won’t get this kind of off center job done nicely as well. (DUNNO OMD?) For short distance, I use two way, like Ron said, for off center, you usually will back focused. 1. tilt your body compensate it after recompose. 2. Front focus the shot before recompose. Both seems doing fine for first order cancellation Don’t laugh, since you don’t expect your set of lens in sync with your body anyway, I do this kind of compensation all the time back to my first M lens 50sonnar with strong focus shift.
The biggest problem we are face is 50lux at MFD0.7 and Noct at MFD1. For wide lens or long glass, it is a less issue.
Edward, nice bW set, the first one is great.
Ron, great set for random thing around city. #2 and last are my favorite
Ryan, nice portrait. It must be fun once you nail the focus at 0.95 with his moving
Charles, Nice set, beautiful rendering.
Weesin, great color.
Airfrog, Nice sharp bird photo. yes, you can do it, but the bird has to be pretty dumb
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50lux from yesterday at parking lot. Hear the sound of plane, quick focus at building at f5.6. Is this the beauty of Rangefinder?
Edward, thanks for the info, interesting, and do they send the elephants back to the farmland when they get bigger/older?
Charles, love those dreamy 1.0 shots! Beautiful!
Dale, excellent shots with the 50Lux. Nice moment captured on that 3rd shot.
wsatam, very nice abstract pattern on that shot and I agree, you can pull quite a bit of detail from the M9's shadows.
Allen, nice shot! Now to continue the experiment with birds in flight?
Michael, excellent set, the koi on the bottom right on #1 balances the composition. #2 is perfect! Nice catch with the plane.
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I find the best practice is chasing toddlers around @ 0.95. Trial by fire.
I'll give you a gold medal for doing that with the 0.95. Excellent shot!
Andrew, Another good set about that truck. Color is great without oversaturated.
Joe, Thanks for comment. Another nice BW shot.
Ron, I forget to thanks for your explanation of changing lens. It has been in my mind for a while that have another M body, even m8 as I don’t like change lens in field (before). I thought you must have the same mind But your post make me rethink this. I get this scary for change lens from experience with recent trip in China. With two kids around, it is really awkward changing lens. Without them, it really should not be a problem. Unfortunately, I pass that bad feeling in recent trip to FL, I pretty much only use 21mm. so I miss so many opportunity. I also like the way you think in term of focal length with the same scene. That is good way to training and learning about angle of view. This time, you just save me $4000
Edward, Joe and Michael, thank you
dalegaspi, nice family captures!
Winston, love the design and lines in the image
Allen, very cool bird shot!
Michael, first two shots are excellent. Love the B&W beach composition!!
Joe, really captured the emotions of the moment! Very neat
Charles - Great portrait set! Nice counterpoint to Edward's recent Bangkok sets.
Dexter - looks good, like the hair cutting one.
WeeSin - that's some interesting architecture - looks like it's crashing down on them. Sometimes I find the adjustment brush allows for more flexibility because it doesn't require straight line transition like the grad filter does.
Allen - trading Chicago for Miami? Can't blame you, considering the time of year.
Joe - that's quite the moment - hilarious! P-town looks pretty rocking. Funny though, I never remember it being like that the few times I've been there. I guess I didn't visit the right places.
Michael - wow, very nice set and really like the sunset one a lot. Agreed about the benefit of rangefinder quick focus ability. I can see why you might be hesitant to change lenses if you're also looking after the kids. Two cameras would probably be faster. It seems my considerations are considerably different.
Catching up on photos from the big snowstorm about 10 days ago... here are some from the day after - snowdrifts...
50 Lux ASPH:
90 Summarit:
BTW, bonus points if you can see the gatefold defect in the second to last image... I think this is a problem in all of my images, just that it's not normally visible. Once in a while I see it in uniformly dark, low light shots where I try to boost it too much... I think it appears here because some of these have had a lot of adjustments, particularly pulling the shadow values down by 2-3 stops to boost the contrast range.
Ryan, the Nocti really pops! Especially the third one.
Edward, these are great, and really like the last one. Looks like an interesting scene and potentially the basis of a small photoessay. Really enjoyed following these and those you've posted in the other thread!
My GF's mom asked him to dance and lie down, and it followed the instructions 
Also thanks to those commented on my photos.
