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“Rising Among Ruins, Dancing amid Bullets”——Reflections on Maryam’s Photographic Elegy

The Gravity of Ash

Maryam’s monochrome world first arrests you with its textures—the cracked concrete resembling elephant hide, children’s laughter frozen into charcoal smudges, laundry lines strung between bullet-riddled walls like musical notations. These are not war photographs; they are postscripts to apocalypse, where survival wears the face of mundane ritual. A man sips tea in a room missing two walls. A girl leaps over rubble as if it were hopscotch squares. The genius lies not in documenting destruction, but in revealing how life molds itself around absence—like ivy claiming a bombed-out cathedral.

Bottled Sunshine

Nowadays, when you can grab almost anything from the supermarket, I’ve noticed how little I interact with nature anymore. My most recent “nature moment” came from peeling back the rind of an orange – that bright citrus scent lingered on my hands like bottled sunshine. Realizing this, I immediately reached for my camera. Maybe you can catch a hint of its scent through the image.

B&W pictures on Leica M8 and Voigtlander 15mm F4.5 Super Wide-Heliar

Voigtlander 15mm F4.5 Super Wide-Heliar The first generation was actually designed for analog photography. In my opinion, the black and white photos of the Leica m8 are very film-like. This lens is amazing for black and white on the m8, it’s sharp and clear and compact, perfect for street photography.

The ultra-wide angle allows me to get close to the scene and shoot at very close distances, sometimes the closer you get the less likely you are to be seen. Since I don’t have to compose the shot at all, I don’t have to hold the camera in front of my eyes. I just set the focus ring to 1.5 meters and press the shutter when I want.

A picture is better than a video.

Time is something that can’t be paused, but video can be paused. Unfortunately, video is not time. It’s not even a shadow of time; it’s just a model of time. It’s not realistic to expect people to spend all their time watching videos. Photos are a much more time-efficient way to share information. That’s why I tend to prefer photos over videos.

Leica Summilux-M 35mm 1.4 ASHP

If you stop by a Leica store, you’ll see that this lens is their best-seller. The 35mm lens has always been Leica’s most popular, and many newbies to Leica will choose this lens with the Leica M10p as their preferred configuration. One of the best 35mm prime lenses on the market.

The Leica aspherical lens is sharp, has high contrast, and creates beautiful blur. It has almost no shortcomings. The quality of f1.4 can match the sharpness and contrast of f4 lenses from other brands. Narrowing the aperture isn’t the way to improve image quality anymore. It produces similar image quality at all apertures, so you only have to think about the depth of field change. However, many people also say that it lacks personality, and the style barely changes at each aperture.

The second version of Summilux 35 1.4 ASPH has a warmer color, and many people like it wide open. While it’s not as sharp as the third version, the bokeh is more appealing.

The Summicron 35mm f/2 ASPH is about the same size as the Summilux 35mm 1.4 ASPH, just a bit shorter, and the first piece of glass is also recessed. The truth is that the Summicron ASPH was actually derived from the Summilux. But in use, I feel that Summilux’s anti-glare ability is actually better than Summicron. I’m not sure if it’s just my perception, but…

Leica Summilux-M 35mm 1.4 ASHP LEICA M2-R

Leica Summilux-M 35mm 1.4 ASHP + LEICA M9

Time, a touch away

Amidst the endless dance of light and shade, 
The seasoned lensman delves in yesteryear's cascade, 
Through old photographs, 
a surreal reverie, 
Where time feels but a breath away, 
tender and near.

Photographers, 
souls of romance and verse, 
Capturing tales of life, 
blessings and a curse, 
Embracing the mystical, 
the unseen, I, too, embrace this truth, 
a poet's dream.

Leica in Babylon Berlin Season 4

Babylon Berlin has reached the fourth season, a lot of night scenes, indoor light sources, certainly used Leica film lenses …… This is a very careful about photography episodes. Already to the fourth, very good oh, full of details. The first episode showed a Leica camera, and flash.