[Leica] Some portraits

[abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)]

I've been travelling and am finally starting to pull together some of photos 
I
shot along the way.

This first one was shot at the Naval Submarine League annual symposium held 
in
Alexandria, Virgina where a bunch of us who rode around in the boats in 
previous
life-times get to hear what non-classified information is available by the 
folks
who run (primarily) the United States' submarine force.

This gentleman, a retired admiral, is certainly admiring an old flame:

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(M6ttl-35mm summicron @f/2, trix @ 800)

That night I went to an informal voice recital in which my son was singing. 
One
of the performers brought her son who really had a tough time with all the
German and French and Latin and Italian:

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(m6ttl-35mm summicron @f/2, 1/30, tri-x @ 400)

I was also able to visit my sister who is institutionalized near Devon, PA. 
This
was one of her more alert days.

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And then we arrived back in California and I got to attempt to photograph a
niece and nephew. At ages 2 and 1 they are projectiles with a mean free path 
of
about 4 feet before collisions and an average velocity just below Mach 1. A
challenge to shoot with an M6!

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(m6ttl-35mm summicron, 50mm summicron, nearly wide open, tri-x @800 and 400)

Your critique most welcome.

Adam