joshfred

17 May 2024

Leica M9 Review: A Visual Journey into Street Photography

View from inside a tram through reflecting glass to an empty street where one person crosses the tracksWoman on a train holding a Mishima paperback over her face, rails running past the windowShop window reflection layering a hooded figure, paper lanterns and the apartment blocks across the street
Woman with long hair and hoop earrings sitting on a bed holding an open folding fanWoman in a coat and cropped shirt leaning back against a brick wall on a fire escape, arm raised overheadBlurred dark figure crouching in a bright empty room, motion smearing the scene into near-abstractionTwo men crossing an empty cobbled square before the curved colonnade of Humboldt-Universitaet
Shoppers crossing a city street, one man in a mask carrying a bag, church spire closing the viewShadow of a person with both hands raised and fingers splayed, thrown across a bright patch of tiled floorSkateboarder pushing off along an empty shopping street, past a shop sign reading "Black & White"Person and a dog ride an escalator up out of an underground station lit by long fluorescent tubesBronze figures holding a flag on a riverside bridge monument at dusk, curved railing leading in
Discarded car tyre lying in the sand of a paddock beside a wooden fence, a row of houses on the horizonHand drawing back a curtain on a window; a worker rides a ladder lift up an apartment block outsideShot down through blurred railings: a person huddled alone on a bench in an empty covered walkwayBearded man in glasses photographing himself twice over in a mirror and a propped frameMan in a flat cap raising a rangefinder to his eye, reflected in a car wing mirror on a motorway
Columned parliament building behind construction barriers, stacked scaffolding and flagpoles in the foregroundAlte Nationalgalerie seen between two massive columns, people sitting on the lawn in frontWoman in a patterned coat walking past clipped hedges below the Reichstag, TV tower in the distanceShadow of a person in a wide-brimmed hat raising a camera, cast on a textured wall beside leaf shadowsPerson in a grey coat raises a film SLR to their face, hiding it, against a plain white wall
Bearded man in round glasses and a pale overcoat stands on a pavement, a film SLR slung at his hipSelf-portrait in a wide-brimmed hat with a rangefinder camera hiding the face against a plain wallUnderside of a stone bridge arch, ribbed vaults curving over the water in strong light and shadeLong colonnade of concrete pillars, a single small figure standing at the far end
Looking down a dark terrazzo stairwell, bright window shapes falling in a diagonal across the stepsEmpty snack bar seen through its window, a denim jacket hung by the door and a drinks fridge insideTwo hands with dark nail polish pressing into a domed silicone baking mould on a shop display rack
Couple standing close at a river railing on cobblestones, a crowded terrace on the far bank beyond the waterElderly couple arm in arm in coats, waiting to cross a tree-lined city boulevardPerson walking a small dog along an empty riverside promenade as sunbeams break through cloudSnow-laden spruce on a roundabout seen from inside a car, wing mirror in the foreground and road signs at leftSnow-covered town square at night seen from above, two figures crossing under glowing street lamps
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