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    Days in the life of Snowy (aka Snowy World Tour)

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      Hereforthebeer
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      Pics are looking great Snowy.

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        @Finn666 from what I recall from when we were chatting over a year ago you've shot 50mm for a long period of time also. I know I can always drop a 50mm on and will have no issues learning how to shoot it. The reason why I went 35mm in the end was to enable more building/people in front of building style shots. 50mm is just too close for that; you always chop part of a building off in a normal street. With 35mm I can always crop the shot afterwards, if I start too close, I can never get it back. Zooms, my Canon 24-70mm L is a beast of a lens, and it basically never comes of the 6D, but it's just so heavy, not good for travel or street, which is what I'm re-learning for. The Ricoh you're looking at will make a great travel camera for sure.

        @Hereforthebeer ; thanks.

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          Snowy
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          Delayed post from Sunday down in the city, and last few from my local area on a walk.

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            Snowy
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            Bit of a mixed bag this weekend. Was struggling to pick the camera up. Thankfully the Leica is easy to just have out/about than an SLR, but still found myself in the mood of not wanting to capture what I was seeing when it was out, and composing images when I'd put it away. This kind of 'mental game' can really do my head in with photography. Depending on how bad it gets I can put a camera down for literally years, and have done so 4x previously over the last 16 or so years. The Leica does help; the less clinicality and more present form of shooting due to the RF engages me differently once the camera is in front of my eye.

            Technically I feel like I'm starting to get pretty close to where I was before changing systems. Biggest limitation in that regard is I'm still taking the same composition/framing as I was in an SLR for the most part. When I'm not, I'm placing my conceptions of what a Leica Photo should be like ahead of taking a photo with a Leica. Candid street shots, I'm getting the hang of, focus I've got, shutter speed still alluding me a bit, but the direction is good also.

            Mixed bag, as I said.

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              Adjusting the color balance over the week from custom to day, seems to have given me the color palette I was trying to get which is great. I'm constantly impressed by how sharp the lens is at low apertures (the cactus is @ f3.4) and how lovely the bokeh is. It's random shots like today's that make me happy that I gave myself the opportunity to really learn Leica and get my head around it. It is different, and I'm still a long way sure as to what I'll get out of it before pressing the button, however, I like how it does it's thing. Having taking the SLR out about an hour before hand for a few shots, my faith continues to be renewed in Leica.

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                Love your pics, Snowy. Some, to me, have decidedly an Edward Hopper sort of quality, a quite melancholy beauty not free of elements of decay. But hey, I love hard decay in denim, too!

                Keep your jeans on–-and let nothing come in between you and the denim !

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                  ^Thanks! I'm still trying to 'shake up' my eye a bit and go for less rigidity in my shots. evolution/decay in the world is something that catches my eye. I try see out-of-place-ness and discordant shots; hard to see what is either naturally invisible or feels difficult to see. Raises the question of "what's so special about that photo?" The answer is nothing, which is by design, which leads to the question to what is going about, why is this on display. That is the question I am trying to ask and answer in the shot. A slower kind of photography based on every day normal observation. The ordinary, even decayed, that is truly special.

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                    Went out for a long lunch with an old mate of mine yesterday. Rained both before and after, nice day for house work and staying in doors. Ended up @ the pool and took the camera out whilst down there between breaks in the clouds.

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                      Hereforthebeer
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                      Last shot is a ripper Snowy.

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                        Snowy
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                        Thanks!

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                          Not too much to say about these. Am still consistently getting out there, as well as slowly changing from left eye to right eye to shoot with - I think that will really take years, but am giving it more focus each time I'm out. Finally under 3 months until I'm back in Japan. On the other side, it's gone by so quickly, I was hoping for more time to practice shooting.

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                            sabergirl
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                            I love the depth of field in the first three shots.  Very nice!

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                              @Snowy:

                              Finally under 3 months until I'm back in Japan. On the other side, it's gone by so quickly, …

                              I STILLL REMEMBER:

                              GREAT PICS SNOWY

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                              • FridayF
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                                keep it comin matey.. great flicks

                                Tough, heavy and ready! = IRON HEART

                                ~Shinici Haraki~

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                                  @Snowy…..some nice photos

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                                    Thanks gents. Managed a few shots last weekend, but have been pretty fecked over by work this week so no posting. Am heading out to shoot hopefully both days this weekend.  @Aetas Under 2 months until I head to JP now. Thanks for remembering, do you think I'm ready for the crazy of Tokyo? 🙂

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                                      @Snowy:

                                      Thanks for remembering, do you think I'm ready for the crazy of Tokyo? 🙂

                                      Yes, you are! Where ever you look, you have two well trained eyes. 😉

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                                        Cheers Aetas!

                                        These shots from last weekend were taken down in the costal town on Cronulla;

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                                          Boy that tree is sure happy to see you…

                                          😃

                                          Loving these Snowy I hope you keep them coming (not the tree).

                                          Think it, be it.

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                                            Snowy
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                                            Thanks MCL. Feeling like I'll be able to keep it up. Went out yesterday, and am thinking about heading out somewhere today…Just a matter of where/what 🙂

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