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ƒ/1.7 | 1/60 | ISO1600

Biggi Veira

The absolute best part of social living is dancing to good music. I love it more than any other form of socialising, everyone is letting go of their pretences and enjoying themselves while listening to great music. This is another reason I love the compact camera as an every day camera. Being able to dance and be discreet with the camera allows me to get results like above.

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ƒ/1.7 | 1/200 | 400

I took this photo with my Leica about a month into owning the camera. It was very new in my hands still, so details about the camera that I know now were still things I was learning then. Take, for example, when the aperture ring is set to Auto, the camera defaults to a 1.7 f stop. Certainly not an issue, but definitely a bit annoying to not be aware of when using a 28mm lens that has a rather shallow depth of field when it is at 1.7. As such, the above photograph is sharp as can be in the smallest section of the frame. Still, I kinda prefer the mistakes to the perfections and this one fits that bill.

I remember when they first opened Millennium Park that Anish Kapoor had such a hissy fit about letting people take photos of his work that if you had any camera on you, security would come and give you all this total BS about how you can’t photograph the sculpture and that it was strictly forbidden to sell the image if you somehow got a shot in before they’d come hassle you. This was in 2003 (classic Chicago delays causing Millennium Park to open 3 years late) and pre-dated smart phones by 4 years. I really want to know what Anish Kapoor thinks of this whole situation now, knowing that “The Bean” (not its real name, ha ha!) is the most photographed spot in the entire city.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO400

Harvest

Although some of these are not the kind that you’d want to eat, nor the kind that will help you release some stress, the beauty of this bounty is all nature’s pleasure. Walking in the forest all weekend with the family, connecting to the trees and moss and the like, these souvenirs are just a nice memory of a weekend that felt so good.

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Summer House Moments

ƒ/5.6 | 1/100 | ISO1600

Summer is over, so here’s a memory of summer from the past. It’s always such an incredible thing to be out in the countryside in the middle of the night. The weather always seems to clear up enough to make sure you see some incredible sights while the sun is never too far off the horizon.

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The Princess is Seven

ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO400

I have a seven year old daughter and she’s pretty amazing. As such, we had an incredible birthday party for her and spent the whole day making her life as perfect as possible. I spent the morning experimenting with a gel and my flash, trying to create some cool looks by placing the gel directly in front of the flash so that the light it cast would be different colours depending on where it went through the gel.