I’m jet lagged after returning from Sicily, and still waking up at 1:30 AM to start the day, so I figured I’d make good use of the time and start another blog post. In Part 1 I left off with describing the eruption of nearby Mount Etna and the Old World Elegance of Taormina. Below is a [...]

I just got back home after a ten-day visit to the Mediterranean island of Sicily, located off the ‘toe’ of the ‘boot’ of Italy. As an autonomous region of Italy, Sicily is proudly independent, and has a rich history that places human activity there from 8000 BC on. Sicily is a gateway between North Africa [...]

Leica makes wonderful rangefinder cameras. I have been a fan of the Leica ‘M’ approach ever since I bought my first Leica, the Leica MP film camera. The MP’s ‘mechanical perfection’ combined with a Leica Summicron 35 mm f/2 ASPH lens treated me to many wonderful photographs. I replaced my Leica MP with the full-frame digital Leica [...]

While I was looking at Danny Bar’s superb photos it occurred to me what a lousy job I’ve been doing at posting my own photos over the last few years. I’ve taken thousands of photos all over the world but it seems like I’m always running so short on time that I don’t get my [...]

Danny Bar has been traveling in Greece and snapping photos with his Leica M9 camera with Leica Summilux-M 35 mm f/1.4 ASPH lens combination, and has captured some wonderful black & white images that really reflect the mood of what it’s like to be in Greece right now. Enjoy! Many thanks, Danny, for sharing your fantastic [...]

After I outed Pete Riggle’s new Out Our Way audio diary webpage on his VTAF/Woody web site in my July 6th post, I sent Pete a message saying: “If you have time, I think it’d be fun to hear your system (it’s been ages!), shoot some photos, hear what you’ve been up to lately, and if it’s [...]

Photographer Danny Bar is on the road again, and this time is checking in from Paris with some wonderful black & white photos. (Click on the images for larger versions.) Danny used his Leica M9 with the new Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH lens to capture these beautiful B&W images. I’m a big fan of the Leica [...]

Fellow photography enthusiast and world traveler, Danny Bar, sent me some absolutely awesome photos of his recent trip to Vietnam and Georgia, which really makes me want to get out on travel and shoot some photos. Danny shot all of the photos below using his Leica M9 and the new Leica Summilux 35/1.4 II ASPH. I [...]

I just got home from a couple of weeks of traveling in France, and I’m still severely jet-lagged, with my body feeling about 9 hours out of sync from the clock-time here in the Pacific Northwest of the US where I live. Now I’m thinking about trying to get caught  back up on everything – [...]

Fellow photography (and Leica!) enthusiast, Danny Bar, sent me some absolutely awesome photos of his recent trip to Cuba, which really makes me wish travel to Cuba from the US was a whole lot easier politically. Thanks for sharing your photos with us, Danny, they are awesome – wow! If you click on the photos [...]