Danke sehr, Werner! I have always been mightily impressed with images you posted here.
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
Wow! Awesome Joshua
Thank you, Ronny! Your Iceland images are simply gorgeous! Stokksnes is on our list now .
Here is another image from the former master bathroom of the hacienda. The room's ceiling is about 18 feet high and the mural painting of the nymph covers the either height. The bathtub was on the left side left of the ghostly image but it was long gone. Only the outline of the bathtub was left. BTW, it is really dark inside here since it doesn't have any windows, just to two openings one each to the adjoining rooms.
Today on the A7.mod had mounted what I think is the best 135 for the money I've seen. It's the ugly sister of three siblings, and the others are superstars so this girl just does not get the credit she deserves. The others are the legendary tele-elmarit 135/4 which is still one the sharpest 135s ever, and was unequalled for Leica till the young, slim, thin, and near perfect APO telyt appeared on the scene, and she is spectacular. Of course even that diva is a wall flower in the M world because nobody shoots 135
But Mandler made another lens nobody uses. There are 3 versions and also I think an R version. It's the 135/2.8, and she looks quite interesting with the goggles on the A7 The lens is heavy of course, and I have a bunch of 135s, several f/2.8, which are much lighter. But after some time I've realized none touch this one, for me.
Thank you very much, Charles and Manu! Thank you also for other for their "likes". I am flattered you guys like'm.
Although the main reason for my trip was to capture images of that hacienda, I did spend some time in the colorful town of San Miguel Allende. Here are two street scenes from there taken with the Batis 85mm. The street vendor was playing with the items he was selling. He didn't notice me first but he smiled when he looked at my direction. Please note that his face was partially lit by the spot light buried in the side walk.
Photo taken at 9:52 AM on October 19, 2015 of Dark Hollow Falls, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. A storm had dumped 16 inches of rain on the Park weeks before and the water was abnormally high. But, without the leaves of spring the image did not have the softer and more diffuse light. Image taken with my tripod mounted Sony A7r and my Leica M WATE lens set to 18mm, ISO 50, lens set to f8 for 1/5 second. Processed in LR6.
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