It's the dog days of Summer. Better spent indoors. A chance to revisit old photos.

 

This is Ben early in the teen years. We're having dinner at our favorite restaurant, Asti Trattoria. 

I had a camera with me. A Leica M9 with a 35mm Summilux. While we were waiting for our first course I snapped a photo of the kid. The light was beautiful because while it was indirect sunlight it was flowing through a window just to the right of the frame. A nice time to live in Austin. 

This is one of my favorite combinations for photographing slow work. Situations in which you can take your time and play around. So, a Leica SL2 mostly for the 47 megapixels and the nice color but a Voigtlander 50mm APO to match the high res potential and give me sharp detail. It's on my desk right now. It will be over my shoulder and out the door in an hour or so.

On the other side of the entrance door for Crew Café in Montreal. Traveling light that morning. Just a Leica Q2 over one shoulder. What more did I need? Well....coffee, of course. 

Waiting for my dermatologist to drop by, check out my epidermis and maybe burn some unwanted stuff off with liquid nitrogen. Reflecting on all those times I neglected sun screen at the noon swim workouts. Eventually paying the piper. Leica M-240 with 28mm f2.8 Carl Zeiss ZM lens. 

I asked if I could keep the cool, long shirt but....no.

Not really practical as it fastens in the back.

An additional favorite combo. That same 50mm APO from above married to an M240 body.

The APO can resolve the 24 megapixels on that sensor in its sleep. 

Intermission. Samsung Galaxy NX camera with Samsung long macro lens.

Getting some use out of that EVF-2 finder. Perfect for those times when the 28mm seems okay.

Why is this photographer so squinty? 

Love the cheap, leather straps from Small Rig. Less than $20. 

It's fun to look at myself in self portraits so I can see how the world sees me when I am out photographing. Always seem to need a haircut. Reasonably good shape otherwise.