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This photo was taken in Rome in 1997. It was one of those shots that I saw on the contact sheet and then forgot about. I never printed it and only resurrected it several years later when I scanned the film. I now like this picture a lot because of the interplay of the many lines in it, the tones of the walls, and the empty frame which kind of “comments” on the frame it is surrounded by.
Shot with a Leica M4-P and a 35mm pre-ASPH Summicron on Kodak Tri-X.
Why I use a Leica:
A mechanical Leica M embodies the essence of photography for me. It has everything you need to take a good photo and nothing more. It’s a legend as it was used by far more great photographers than any other camera. It’s a design icon and one of the most beautiful cameras ever built. And it’ll most likely still work when you’ve already given up photography. All this is essentially how a Leica feels for me, and feeling and subjectivity is what photography is about.
Edi Weitz lives in Hamburg, Germany and has a photo blog at almostonephotoperday.blogspot.com.
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One of my favourite photos published here on Leicashots so far. This one could have been captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson himself.
Great work, thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot, Jarle! And good luck with your M9… :)
I agree with Jarle. Cartier-Bresson would be proud, he taught you well, Edi ;)
This is what I love about photographs, they tell only a frozen fraction a story, you have to fill in the blanks yourself. Splendid work, my friend.
Thanks, James!
Thanks Edi!
I’ve bought some M9 lottery tickets as well – just in case :-)
Jarle