On a short trip to Wood's Hole, Mass and took the ferry over to Martha's Vineyard... not that you'd really know it from these shots! Again with the Voigtlander 50mm f/1.5 on my M9. Great JPEGs from the camera with some easy tweaks in LR.
Some more from the Antarctic Peninsula, back in February.
I used my Pentax K-1 for the vast majority of trip photos, the M9 was rarely used in this context, however I got some great sunrise shots that need careful editting (due dynamic range), and stitching. I also need to get Hugin working properly (the batch queue simply hangs, even after re-installation).
I went in search of of my 100-year-old grandmother's home town in north coastal Guangdong province, armed with nothing but the names of the prefecture and the village. It may or may not be exact since place names and boundaries have changed since the 1930's, and she no longer remembers anything specific, but the general area should be right. Now a district of the city of Shantou, this area apparently has a concentration of bra factories, and bra pads are strewn all over the place. It retains a very strong local religion, and every family has Daoist talismans on their front door.
M9 and Summicron-M 35mm Asph. (Incidentally I'm selling the lens on B&S because I'm getting my Summilux-M asph back).
I'm loving all of the diverse images on this page.
I succeeded in driving Hugin (pano stitching program) successfully again, a learning curve that I had slipped back down.
This is a 5-image panorama (M9 with VM 50 f/1.5 LTM) taken at 5:40am local time off the area of the Antarctic Peninsula known as Graham Land. There are two very pointed peaks at the extreme left of the long range, peaks that I recognise we later sailed past that day at the N end of the beautiful Lemaire Channel (AKA Kodak Gap! I've added a Pentax K-1 image for completeness to this post). Incidentally, K-1 shots I took using an AF lens at this same time had less than perfect focus).
Reviewing these files from our Antarctic Peninsula cruise makes me feel very fortunate, yet sad at the thought that being in such a special part of the world is very probably a one-off, given the cost involved. It's simply the most alluring and beautiful place I have ever visited.
Edward you're making me want to try Ektar again I just never could get it to behave the way I want.
I shoot very little color these days though, to be honest, and of the four lenses I have only one of them is really suited for color anyways (In my opinion).
Love the diverse range of work everyone! I picked up a second film body, an older M4-P (I knew it was going to happen) but I need to do a little restoration to have it optimal but it's going to be my daily carry with the old 35 Summilux.
I'm looking into going to Cuba this summer but there's some logistics to figure out still.
Beautiful images Edward - I love the look and colour that they have - much nicer tonality and warmth than the digital equivalents although it is easy to process digital to make it look very close. My flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/nico1974/ stream is a mixture of both and it is sometimes hard to tell them apart.
I must confess that despite being a big fan of the M10 I have also recently purchased a M6 and I love using it.
First image taken with either the Zeiss ZM35/2.8 and all others with the fantastic Voigtlander 28/3.5 - Ektar 100 self developed and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000