Because I can...

... And because I really need to post something ...

Young Jane enjoys her dance class, accidentally a one-on-one session that day when other students, for various reasons, didn't make it.

Shot with the Leica M3 and 35mm Summicron lens on Kodak's BW400CN film.

And on that note, an extended blog on the new Leica M9 is to come. No, I've not gotten any closer to one than anyone else who watched the Big Reveal on 9/9/09 by internet. I just like talking about Leicas...

Catching up...

So to avoid have happening to this image what has happened to our beach pictures (shot in July, still sitting undisturbed in their film canisters in September), I'm uploading this from our Labor Day camping trip to a friend's farm in Bath County, Virginia. It's a two-second exposure (I think; I was working pretty blind) of the bonfire. About eight or ten families gathered, camping in tents next to the river. Dinner came before, then we all adjourned to a nearby site for this bonfire and marshmallows roasted over the embers. Much fun, I think, was had by all, especially our two little girls. It was their first camping trip.

Shot with a Nikon D80 using a 17-55mm f/2.8 lens...