Shooting Leica

Some tools are so full of art that they enable even the dorkiest of hands to create things of beauty. They are effortless in the sense that they turn the mundane into something worth seeing or listening to. I am talking Winston & Newton Brushes, Faber-Castell Polychromos, Fender Stratocasters, Stradivarius Violins and Leica glass. Becoming an M shooter has been like coming back to the foundations, to being a child with a camera, less consumed by focal lengths and technicalities and freer to focus on the joyful activity of taking pictures of everything in sight. It has re-sparked my love for photography by what feels like an act of liberation: I now have the agility to walk around and find the poetry and the interestingness in everything. The liberty to see everything through the lens again. No special occasions or fancy trips needed.