Lake Wheeler revisited!

These I took at Lake wheeler on the same day with my Leica M8. I was also shooting some film at the same time, so I kept switching up cameras. The images I took on film will eventually make their way here, but I like these just fine. I love manual  focus and lenses with distance scales for hyperfocal distances calculations. It allows you to use them almost as a point and shoot one moment and be very critical in your focusing the next. I also find that I slow down and am more connected to the process of making the images, whereas automation allows you to be more connected to the moment and forget the process. It's almost that one cleanses your palette for the other one. At any rate, these are images I really liked on a really good day.

Enjoy!

Yates Mill in Black and White

Here are some more from the day, same camera, but set to black and white. I really did not tweak these much at all in post production because I liked them as they were.

Yates Mill

Last Saturday I went to Yates Mill again, this time with a friend from work who was breaking in a new camera. It's always better to go shooting with a friend, and it got me thinking: someone who does not know a lot about cameras, but has a great imagination and can see in their head the image the want, with just a little help, will always take better pictures then someone who knows a lot about camera gear and technique, but can only repeat ideas he has already seen. My friend's pictures were amazing. Sorry, but you'll have to settle for mine. 

Enjoy!

We ran into a guy who was just starting a family photoshoot. I think the track suit  pants were a bold choice!

Snow Day!

It was really just a dusting, but Tucker liked it. I liked taking pictures of him enjoying the snow so it was good for everyone!