Street photography with my Leica M9 and Summilux 50mm

Despite loving my M9, I have never really thought it a great camera for street photography. Which is actually somewhat silly, given that the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson used film Leicas. Nevertheless, my attempts to use an M9 on the street all too often result in pictures like the above shot. Needless to say though, …

A walk through rural North London

The farmland where I photographed the wheatfield last week is part of Rectory Farm in Enfield. For a year or two it has lain fallow but this year it has been planted as an arable farm. I believe I once found a post on google stating it was a Dairy farm prior to the devastating …

Charlotte Dujardin’s golden postbox

Came across this on my way back from the post office to pick up a parcel this afternoon. It’s painted gold in honour of Charlotte Dujardin, the British double gold medalist and dressage rider at the 2012 Olympics. Charlotte was born in Enfield which is where this postbox is located. M9 and Summilux 50 ASPH …

A windswept Norfolk day

OK, so final day of our family holiday in Norfolk and the weather is still “interesting” (windy and wet). Having seen the forecast of a huge storm in the afternoon we got up at the “crack of a sparrowfart’ to get to the beach early. The flip side of that is that the skies were …