Not sure why but I really like this photograph. Taken late at night through a store window. A 50mm lens. An older rangefinder body. But wow! The detail is just right...

 

Handheld. 

No IBIS.

A 50mm Thypoch lens.

f2.0

ISO 800. 

I went out walking after the sun went down. A time of day I'm usually at home winding down. Getting ready for the next day. But B. was out of town and there was a one evening lull between Monday's birthday dinner with family and Wednesday's next event; Smoked, BBQ ribs at Will's house.

I was at loose ends. Nothing better to do. I thought about diving into the seven or eight books I got as birthday presents but thought to save those for later. When I might need homebound distraction more. 

Foot traffic fades as darkness seeps in and around the storefronts and the sidewalks. 

When I was photographing mannequins I met a fellow photographer who was shooting with a Noctilux .95 graphed onto the latest Nikon/Red video/photo camera. He had an interesting take on that combo. 

I talked for a few minutes with a street musician that I see regularly in the neighborhood. 

Young people smiled at the old man with a camera hung around his neck as they passed by on their way to a restaurant or bar. I smiled back. It was all so congenial. 

Then I slipped back into my car and headed home to eat leftover chocolate cake

and to post process my favorite new images. 

And to mentally prepare for swim practice on the first 

morning of cool temperatures since April. 

And it was good.