The first Leica prototypes were built by Oskar Barnack at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke, in Wetzlar, in 1913 (wikipedia). At the time, Barnack’s intention was to build a small, compact camera that could be carried by landscape photographer to enable them to take photos without having to carry the heavy […]
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In September I visited the famous village of Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, belonging to the municipality of Molenwaard, in the province South Holland, about 15 km east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is situated in a polder in the Alblasserwaard at the confluence of the Lek andNoord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is […]
It’s always nice to take a wander around the streets and canals in Amsterdam, and recently during a break from work I had a chance to do so on a couple of occasions during the week, when the city is a little less crowded. I moved to the Netherlands 16 […]
The Leica community has a popular online forum which boasts 5600 active users and 133000 members in total. The forum contains a wealth of information around the Leica product family, and members also organise informal get-togethers, or photo walks, around the world. In July 2013 I joined a group of 10 […]
There is a Japanese garden in the Amsterdamse Bos, a wooded area in-between Amsterdam and Amstelveen. Every spring time, the cherry blossoms bloom, and the garden is a popular weekend trip for many families in the neighbourhood. In April 2013 I went along to see if I could pick up […]
I had a busy couple of weeks travel in April, hitting Dubai, Istanbul, and Slovakia in a 10 day period. As with any business trip, photography has to take a back seat, but shooting with the rangefinder means it is a lot easy to carry my gear with me when […]
I have been lucky enough to visit Dubai a number of times through my career. My first trips were back around the Millennium, at which point I found the city to be developing fast, but still under control. However my journeys over the past 5 or 6 years have really […]
In March 2013 I visited Prague twice for business. On the second occasion I took along a tripod as well, and used this to take a number of long exposures on the Charles Bridge in Prague. From wikipedia: The Charles Bridge (Czech: Karlův most) is a famous historic bridge that crosses […]
If you read my post from earlier in the year, you’ll see I made the decision to try out a Leica M6 in an effort to find a system camera that was more suitable for taking along with me when I travelled. After putting a bunch of films through the camera, […]
After returning from Japan and seeing the quality of the images coming back from processing, I was happy to continue using the M6. There were a couple of issues that I needed to overcome – firstly processing, and secondly post processing, aka digitising the images….. In Japan it had been […]
