I like to travel, especially to countries around the Mediterranean. I am a retired transit driver who likes to take pictures and video.

I presently take my photos with a small selection of Fuji Film cameras and a Leica M Type246 Monochrom an M10 and a Leica Q. My old photos are from slides scanned with a Canon FS4000 and taken with a Pentax Spotmatic or my first camera, a rangefinder I cannot remember the name of. I loved that camera, and am developing a similar relationship with my M Type 246.

In January 2011 I spent a weekend in New York City on a photo seminar with two great people, Sori and Jed, both M9 lovers. Our guru for this seminar was Thorsten Overgaard. What he taught me made the weekend priceless. I have now completed three workshops with Thorsten. It is always a learning and fun experience.

I have added a SIGMA DP1 to my small collection of cameras and I am now showing some pictures.

For Christmas we got a C-Lux 3 for those instant shots when we need a camera that we can be carried in a shirt pocket. I have added a Fujifilm X100 to my collection of cameras. It is more complicated than the M cameras but I am operating it at a very simple level. Fujifilm did such a great job with the X100 I have added the X-E1 to my collection. My pocket camera is now a Fuji X-Q1. My main camera is the Leica M246. The Fugi's and Sigma are the standby cameras.

Men seem to take pictures that capture a moment in time and work at composition and light. And these are wonderful photographs.

I am trying to limit my contacts so that I can spend time enjoying their pictures and I would like to thank them for allowing their wonderful art to come to my home. I feel I have selected contacts who are very gifted and creative and their works give me great pleasure, and inspiration.

I love to look at what the imagination can do. Look at what the people listed in my contacts are doing and you will be amazed.

We should all enjoy our trip as passengers of Planet Earth, once a year we travel around the sun together.

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Photography by Alan42 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License.Based on a work at www.flickr.com/photos/islastchance/.

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