Cross, tourists and a seagull

Thorsten Overgaard has a post on his Leica M9 best practices.  There's a lot of good tips although I don't share most of his practises.

I sold my Zeiss Planar 50mm event though it was an excellent lens. I have never seen that kind of quality in pictures shot with lens wide open. I figured one 50mm is enough. Steve Huff has a good review of it in case your interested.

Most of the pictures on my new blog so far have been taken within 2 kilometers from my home. I should go to new places because it is getting really difficult to find anything interesting to photograph on my usual routes. Here's few latest from the usual places.

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There's a lot of this kind of action going on daily at the Sibelius monument.

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You can't beat seagulls and windows as photographic subjects.

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Here I wanted to test out the B&W mode in M9. Results are quite flat but it might be useful in some situations.

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I got more pictures on my walls. This is single picture divided to three. It was originally shot with Mamiya M645 1000s which creates 6x4.5 negatives. I had to stretch it with Photoshop's content aware scaling to get three 30x40cm pictures.