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LEICA STORIES

GEAR AND TECHNIQUE

Leica M10-D vs. Leica M6 compared

Techniques, ideas and confessions of a minimalist photographer. This site is a combination of  technique, gear and stories about how photos are made, mostly using Leica cameras.

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STREET SHOOTING

Street shooting is improvisation. Musicians who improvise know their scales so well they don’t need to think about them when…
Crossroads near Bloomington, Indiana

NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

This photo got me thinking about negatives. I made the shot in Indiana when I was a teenager. We’d moved…
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WORTH THE WAIT

Street shooting requires an instantaneous reaction to what you are seeing. It’s this need to react immediately to whatever is…
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GOING MANUAL

There are lessons from the days of film photography that will make a digital a shooter better photographer.I grew up…
A man watches a street photographer prepare a subject, Marbella Spain

WORKING INSIDE

Shooting on the inside – Working your way in.One of the advantages of Leicas over bigger and noisier cameras is…
Small Eagle Creek camera bag with Leica M10-D and Leica M10 with four lenses.

IN THE BAG

I have the perfect Leica camera bag. Because it hasn’t been made for twenty years, out of paranoia the bag…
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TRAVELING LIGHT

I really love being there. I almost always hate getting there.I like air travel because it gets me where I…
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PARIS PRINTERS

I love to photograph, just don’t bother me with the details that follow; like the processing and printing. I’ll get…