Composite created for the Digitalmania challenge in the style of Stephanie Rubiano.

This artwork and many others are offered in my Etsy store.

You are invited to visit it! All proceeds from the sales of

my work go to the Vista Women's Crisis Center in California.

www.etsy.com/shop/CathysArtWorld

Chosen for the little logo at Visual Artistry Group!!

Girl is from "Girl- Holding the Portrait of a Man" Ross & Thomson of Edinburg 1840-1855 at the National Museum of Scotland.

Butterfly wings and text are from Pinterest free images.

Background images from M Weber from Awake group and H. Adams on Pixabay.

Frame from Viva Fragments.

Newsprint from Adobe Stock.

Bird from Adobe Stock.

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MOTW

Reposted as last week Nella featured as my Model of the Week on the Blog. You probably missed it so see here for more of Nella: mrleica.com/2014/09/03/featured-motw-nella/

D800 + Samyang 85mm f1.4 Model Photography

Model - Nella

B&W JPEG

mrleica.com/samyang-85mm-review/

mrleica.com/portrait-photography-lighting-kit/

I tend to shoot the Samyang 85 / 1.4 wide open as it is sharp and beats my Nikkor 85/1.4D but stopped down as here at f4 it is crazy sharp yet still gives a nice shallow DOF. Great lens.

buy print - woodcum-store.the-shop.co/en/art/13681-motw.html

Leica M9 + Leica Summicron 75mm f2 APO

Model photography - Gina, modelling for my Coventry studio photography workshop day.

Photography workshops: mrleica.com/2014/08/11/london-photography-workshop-july14...

**New Dates - Group Photography Workshops, London

Autumn 2014:

Saturday September 13th, 2014 - 3 places available

Saturday October 25th, 2014 - 3 places available

Model of the week - Gina! mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + Zeiss ZM Sonnar 50mm f1.5 C

Karolina, Poland.

Usual dodge and burn (contrast) adustments only. Detail as shot

See here MOTW (ModelOfThe Week) from yesterday - Zuza, Poland - mrleica.com/2014/08/20/featured-motw-zuza/

REPOST from 2012 as I featured Galyna as the model of the week this week. See more of Galyna here - mrleica.com/2014/09/10/featured-motw-galyna/

Original comment:

Samyang 85/1.4.. wide open. I had to check the EXIF myself I couldn't believe it was f1.4 despite me always shooting it wide open.

Model Photography with Galyna, Ukraine.

Nikon D800 + Samyang 85mm f1.4

Leica M9 + Zeiss ZM Sonnar 50mm f2

Model Photography - Malina, Poland

See here MOTW (ModelOfThe Week) - Zuza, Poland - mrleica.com/2014/08/20/featured-motw-zuza/

Leica M9 + 1960s Leica Elmar 135mm f4

Model photography - Gina modelling for yesterday's 1-2-1 photography workshop

Daylight only

See more here: mrleica.com/2014/08/11/london-photography-workshop-july14...

**New Dates - Group Photography Workshops, London

Autumn 2014:

Saturday September 13th, 2014 - 3 places available

Saturday October 25th, 2014 - 3 places available

Model of the week - Gina! mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + Leica Summicron 90mm f2 + LR3

Leica Fashion / Model photography - Gina

1-2-1 photography tuition, Coventry - how to balance a speedlight with daylight

www.matthewosbornephotography.co.uk/Photography-Courses.html

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Nikon D800 + Nikkor 200mm f2 Ai-s + LR3

High key portrait - available light + speedlight

I was a teaching a 1-2-1 photography class today in my Coventry studio and the other photographer was using his Canon 70-200mm lens so I thought I would dig out my old Nikkor 200mm f2 Ai-s lens. I forgot how amazing it is! :)

Gina was modelling for me and we got a lot of very nice photos again. More to follow.

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + Zeiss ZM Planar 50mm f2 (LR3)

Fashion photography - Poland

Model - Marta

Daylight only

See more from Poland at - mrleica.com/2014/09/02/leica-fashion-shoot-poland/

I will post more once I get my new computer and have Photoshop. Really looking forward to seeing the Fuji GF670 images once developed!

BLOG (New): Model of the week - Nella - mrleica.com/2014/09/03/featured-motw-nella/

Leica M9 + 1950s Leica Summarit 50mm f1.5

Painting with light - example image with model Gina from yesterday's portrait photography workshop and how to use a single speedlight, on camera and off camera.

Coventry, UK - www.matthewosbornephotography.co.uk/Photography-Courses.html

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + 1950s Leica Summarit 50mm f1.5 + 1 speedlight + LR3

Leica Fashion Photography - Gina modelling for the 1-2-1 photography workshop on Sunday.

Coventry, UK - www.matthewosbornephotography.co.uk/Photography-Courses.html

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + 1960s Leica Elmar 135mm f4 + LR3 (light at the edges as shot. No Photoshop)

Facebook cover photo crop

Taken during the 1-2-1 photography workshop with model Gina. Using how to use one speedlight. This was shot in the garden.

I still have spaces if you want to join me in London this Saturday with Latvian model Lauma. Please contact me for more info or see my blog.

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Mamiya RZ 67 Pro II + 120 Kodak Portra 400 (B&W Conversion)

Bridal photography medium format 6x7 film photography shoot with model Harriett, Spring 2013.

Epson v600 film scan

NEW: Model of the week - Gina! mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

twowordshotmess.wordpress.com/mess-of-the-week/

Leica M9 + Leica Summicron 90mm f2 + LR3

Model photography - Gina

1-2-1 photography tuition, Coventry - how to balance a speedlight with daylight

www.matthewosbornephotography.co.uk/Photography-Courses.html

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

Leica M9 + Leica Summicron 90mm f2 + LR3

Model photography - Gina

Leica M9 in camera B&W JPEG pushed through Lightroom 3, sharpened, watermarked and resized to send to the model. Gina received 200+ images shortly after the shoot. I may clone out the top right corner once my new computer finally arrives and can then start to post edited photos from Poland and other shoots. :) At last!

1-2-1 photography tuition, Coventry - photography workshop with an emphasis on portraiture and portrait lighting

www.matthewosbornephotography.co.uk/Photography-Courses.html

Gina - mrleica.com/2014/08/13/featured-motw-gina/

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MOTW

I first played The King of Fighters 1998 twenty years ago today. I forget how I got the game. I probably downloaded it from mame.dk back then and played it on NeoRageX or MAME32. That was the ROM site, and those were the emulators to use.

I had gotten into Neo Geo emulation earlier in 2001. All through the 90s, I pretty much only ever saw Bust a Move in Neo Geo arcade cabinets. I didn't know there was a rich collection of games for the platform. One of my first Neo Geo games I played through emulation was the KOF99 prototype. It was the newest one I could get my hands on. I liked it, and I dabbled in loads of other Neo Geo games after that. Other games in the KOF series, the Fatal Fury series, even Samurai Shodown and Last Blade. I even finally got to check out that Metal Slug series I had heard so many good things about. Garou: Mark of the Wolves was one of my favorite games at the time, and I had a big history with it in its own right, but it was on April 1, 2001 that I finally downloaded KOF98.

I remember it was April 1, 2001 because it was the Sunday of Wrestlemania 17 that year. My family went out for a drive that afternoon, and we ended up going to Ken Buchanan Riverfront Park in Sayreville, NJ for the first time that day. I think it was newly built. We didn't stay long, but we checked it out. After getting home, I decided to hit the ROM sites and download KOF98 since I heard that it was the best KOF game around. It finished downloading a little while before Wrestlemania, and I got to play it for a little bit. It seemed good. So many different characters were present, and the game felt great. Of course, it was almost time for Wrestlemania, so I put it down and picked it up again later in the week.

I've heard KOF98 called the KOF98 of KOF98. It's solidly the standard, as I would come to find out in the following months. I took to it like I did Garou: MOTW. It was so much fun to play! A little while after that, the emulation miracle known as Kaillera came out. It was an early online gameplay platform for emulators, and MAME32 was the first emulator to support it. It was gaming nirvana for the next few months with so many different people playing SNK and Capcom fighting games online. I met a few friends on the local server, too. Yashiro!!!, Vonism, and Denzl Keyboard would all hang out on the Snausage Fingerz server and play games like KOF98 again and again.

Though the initial KOF98 and Kaillera frenzy faded, the game never stopped being a part of my life. I got the enhanced Dreamcast port for my birthday that year. It was oddly called KOF99 but was actually KOF98. In very early 2009, KOF98 Ultimate Match came out in the US for Playstation 2. I actually went to a bunch of different game stores one Saturday morning trying to find it, and I finally found it at the last store. I even said to the guy working there "you probably don't have it, I've been all over already, but would you happen to have KOF98 Ultimate Match for PS2?" They had it! That was a great weekend. Ultimate Match rebalanced the game and added some extra characters. It truly became the go-to version. Early in the 2010s, I finally gook the plunge on a consolized Neo Geo MVS system, and I got myself an original KOF98 MVS cartridge. I played this one to no end, too. It was like coming full circle to finally play the original version of the game on actual Neo Geo hardware. Finally, KOF98 Ultimate Match had its Final Edition come out on Steam a number of years ago. Code Mystics handled the port, and they turned this version of the game into KOF98 perfection. It's a joy to play, looks exactly as it should, and sounds better than ever if you use the arranged soundtrack audio mod. It's the only version of the game I've gone back to ever since because it builds on the original game so masterfully.

Via la KOF98!!!

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