[Leica] A short walk from my house

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

I've not been very pleased with my results lately. I'm inclined to 
think it's partly because the ease of shooting with a digital camera 
keeps me from thinking. When I shot film, I paid more attention to 
what I was doing. Well, cest la vie; I'll learn.

Anyway, I recently went for a short walk from my house and tried to 
make each photo count. Nevertheless, I took two to three shots of the 
ones where the best vantage point was not obvious.

This is just an oak tree a block from my house. Since oaks are not 
the most common trees in Palo Alto, I did not realize until I saw a 
picture in today's paper that all oaks tend to look tortured.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Tortured+Tree.jpg.html

I've passed this psychedelic car many times, but never thought to 
photograph it.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Car+on+Drugs.jpg.html

A bit further on was an interesting group of birch trees.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Stand+of+Birch.jpg.html

Finally, this expresses my amazement at the quality of the twenty to 
thirty year old f/2 35mm Summicron (Made in Canada). I was under a 
tulip tree, left the 90mm lens at home. So here was this flower way 
up there. I just snapped the tree and cropped the hell out of the 
picture. Amazed that the result was any good at all. I should have 
posted the uncropped picture just for bragging rights, but I guess 
you know how good even real old Leica lenses are.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Tulip+Tree+Flower.jpg.html

Finally, I periodically try to get some shots at my bird feeder with 
the 90mm lens.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Bird+Feeder.jpg.html

And I noticed another bird watcher looking out the window.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Another+Bird+Watcher.jpg.html


C&C Welcome

Herb

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Herbert Kanner
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