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Archive for 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph
New Picnic Time
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph, Leica M Monochrom, Snowzilla on January 23, 2016 by johnbuckley100Into The Wild
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph, Leica Monochrom, Snowzilla on January 23, 2016 by johnbuckley100Washington, D.C. Saturday morning. Midway through Snowzilla. Looking down toward the unplowed New Mexico Avenue. Leica Monochrom (top-246), 75mm APO.
In The Elk Refuge
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph, Elk Refuge, Jackson Hole, Leica Monochrom (Typ-246), Sleeping Indian, Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 on August 16, 2015 by johnbuckley100
Surely fishermen understand the experience of going to a familiar spot and have fish after fish land in the creel. So it was that night at the Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, when clouds materialized above the Sleeping Indian — the formation formally known as Sheep Mountain, but so-called for obvious reasons. The particular trick on this evening was that as the large clouds materialized behind the Sleeping Indian, the sun that illuminated them kept slipping behind clouds to the west.
The clouds were enormous, and spectacular. We actually thought we had gotten the pictures we came for when we drove a few miles further up the dirt road.
Distant Jackson Peak — all the way across the valley from the Tetons — was similarly lit by this magical light. And then we saw, from a different angle, how the clouds were lining up with the Sleeping Indian’s face and headdress.
This rendered the Tetons themselves perhaps the fourth most magnificent sight in the valley.
It was one of those nights.
Color Wins, Sometimes
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph, Jackson Hole, Leica M, Leica Monochrom (Typ-246), monochrome on July 17, 2015 by johnbuckley100We had great fun out West principally using the Leica Monochrom (typ-246) to capture images of Jackson Hole in black and white. Every once in a while, though, a natural experiment takes place where we come across an image we took in color that is virtually the same as what was captured in black and white. Monochrome has stopping power, timelessness. Ah, but sometimes color nails it. You be the judge.
That’s the way our M-240 caught the sunset underneath the Sleeping Indian, with the 75mm APO-Summicron-Asph. And this is the way our Monochrom caught it with the 50mm APO.
We thought the black and white image was nice enough to print. But we now believe color wins here, hands down. Yes, you do not need a monochrome-only camera to make such experiments, but as readers of Tulip Frenzy know, we like the idea of deliberately going out to take monochrome-only images. This time, though, we’re glad we brought along the M.
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