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LEICA STORIES
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.
THE LEICA M10-D IS ALMOST ANALOG
The Leica M10-D is essentially an analog camera with a digital sensor. There is no viewing screen and the camera…
STREET SHOOTING
Street shooting is improvisation. Musicians who improvise know their scales so well they don’t need to think about them when…
NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
This photo got me thinking about negatives. I made the shot in Indiana when I was a teenager. We’d moved…
WORTH THE WAIT
Street shooting requires an instantaneous reaction to what you are seeing. It’s this need to react immediately to whatever is…
GOING MANUAL
I grew up shooting manual cameras. There was no Google back then and it took time and effort to get…
WORKING INSIDE
Shooting on the inside – Working your way in. One of the advantages of Leicas over bigger and noisier cameras…
IN THE BAG
I have the perfect Leica camera bag. Because it hasn’t been made for twenty years, out of paranoia the bag…
TRAVELING LIGHT
I really love being there. I almost always hate getting there. I like air travel because it gets me where…
BLACK & WHITE HYBRID WORKFLOW
This isn’t a post about the ongoing battle between film and digital. I shoot both depending on my needs. [Note:…
HOPI-NAVAJO LAND DISPUTE
In early 1975, a mutual acquaintance sent anthropologist, Harry King, to me for some advice. Harry had a grant to…
PARIS PRINTERS
I love to photograph, just don’t bother me with the details that follow; like the processing and printing. I’ll get…