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Editing vacation* pictures could be a challenge, but also it’s really easy when you are not out to make a coherent travelogue for a particular audience. This means the result you’ll see here is based mostly on aesthetic concerns rather than an attempt to tell a story of experiences. However, had I not been in those places to have those experiences I would not have been able to make the pictures.

* the trip was most certainly not a vacation.

So guess who wishes they’d have checked their Leica’s fast speeds before going abroad and shooting (and then developing and printing) 16 rolls of film?
While only about 15% of all the photos I got back today have that black blurry bar, it seems that 1/1000 of a second at f 1.4 is not a good combo with my Leica. Anything else shot wide open at a speed less than 1/250 came out fine though, including photos that were not of sisters, travel agents, or student assistants. Looks like a trip to the Leica repair shop in Ginza is in order…

If these were for some reason the only two pictures that came out from my trip, I’d still say it was all worth it.

That’s my brother on his Triumph.