Phillip, I was about to ask whether you'd sold all your other lenses because you liked the Rokkor 55/1.7 so much. Then I learned about your one month with the Rokkor 1.7/55 project, which perfectly illustrates the Zen adage: "The further one travels along a narrow path, the wider it becomes." The Rokkor 55/1.7 really is a gem, as long as it's in the right hands.
^ David, looks like a beautiful oil painting to me. Very nice!
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Went out shooting this morning after taking a break. The morning light sliced across the face of this Bank of America building. Edited it in black and white since you guys know I love b&w.
Here are three more from our Aspiring National Park trip - the first shows a couple of our party at the end of a long second day, resting in a rock bivvy built under a large glacial rock; the second was taken as we were leaving to cross the main divide at the beginning of the third day, and the third shows the sky that greeted us early on day four - heavy rain began shortly after and we stayed holed up in another rock bivvy until it cleared the next day. The first is with a Loxia 21, and the other two with my ZM 35...
I've long held the view (incorrectly, as it turns out) that ultra-wide images inevitably showed significant distortion but your Trail Goes on Forever photo looks entirely natural (as well as really beautiful). On a similar note, I've been pleasantly surprised by some recent Loxia 21 pictures (Brendans' Spring photos and digital_AM's sunstars come to mind).
