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Dark, rainy, misty, no more colours in the nature… just waiting for the frost and the snow now…. 🙂

Thankfully we still have Pifa to model for some photographs… normally she tries to escape when I want to photograph her, but this time she just kept looking at me.. 🙂

Trying to be creative with black & white, turning up the ISO, and using my 50mm Summilux fully open at f1.4…

Some pictures of Pifa… the main idea was to test a couples of lenses… I wanted to test if one needed a trip to Wetzlar (the Leica headquarter…), and I really hope not because, apart from the outragous cost of a calibration, they also use between 8-10 weeks to do it…

All pictures taken with a Leica M9-P, a 50mm Summilux, a 90mm Elmarit and a 90mm Summicron… the latter will unfortunately collect dust until a decision has been made to send it on vacation… 😦

…while looking and hunting for more wild animals… 🙂

Not really a lot of stuff to photograph here in the winter, it’s dark when you leave for work, and it’s dark when you return… so, since I’m itching to take photos, Pifa is my best option.. 😀

…actually she is ill, we’re doing our best to fix her, but instead of posting a picture of her in that condition, I thought this is better… this is how we normally enjoy her company every day… 🙂