Portraits

[Freakscene]

N, Adelaide, South Australia. M10M, 80mm Summilux.

 

[Brambling]

Zorkiy 3m, JUPITER-3 50MM F1.5, HP 5+, exposed 2021

 

[zhanteh]

Betel nut beauty - Taichung, Taiwan 2025
Leica M6 TTL + 24mm Elmarit 2.8 + CineStill 800T

 

[Brambling]

René Hesselink, bookshop keeper in Utrecht, 2021

gelatin silver print (summilux 50mm f1.4 v1 black paint 1959) leica m2
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My father and I have similar facial types, like the man in the photo.

 

[lynnb]

Marj, 2015
5D

 

[raphaellehnen]

Dania, 2025. leica m-a, 28mm asph v1, 5222 ei400 on hc-110 (1:63).

 

[lynnb]

My maternal grandparents in about 1972, taken with my new OM-1 on Kodachrome 25
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[Freakscene]

My grandparents in about 1972, taken with my new OM1 in about 1972 on Kodachrome 25

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Amazing @lynnb - I guess they were born around the time of the turn of the 19th/20th century?

 

[lynnb]

Amazing @lynnb - I guess they were born around the time of the turn of the 19th/20th century?

Yes my maternal grandparents were born in the 1890s, possibly the 1880s. They were both in their 80s when I took this in 1972. They had interesting stories about country life before motor vehicles.

Here’s my parents with them taken at the same time...
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[peterm1]

Breakfast time at Chez Nous by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[p.giannakis]

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Betel nut beauty - Taichung, Taiwan 2025
Leica M6 TTL + 24mm Elmarit 2.8 + CineStill 800T

Somehow I get a very sad feeling seeing this pic.

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (cooke amotal 50mm f2) leica mp

Amsterdam, 2022

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (cooke amotal 50mm f2) leica mp

Carla, 2023

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Portrait of a 70 year old man in the middle of nowhere happily waiting for a bus.
Photographed by my wife

Fujifilm X-T5 camera
Fujinon XF 23mm f1.4 lens
Fukushima prefecture, Japan
July 2025​

 

[Freakscene]

Portrait of a 70 year old man in the middle of nowhere happily waiting for a bus.

Photographed by my wife

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Fujifilm X-T5 camera

Fujinon XF 23mm f1.4 lens

Fukushima prefecture, Japan

July 2025​

Looking like I do in Japan in summer Mike, finding yourself physiologically unsuited to the general combination of heat and humidity, and desperately trying to stay cool. But looking much less hot, bothered and unhappy about it all than me! Good work.

 

[Brambling]

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Dania, 2025. leica m-a, 28mm asph v1, 5222 ei400 on hc-110 (1:63).

I really liked the photo, and the person in it - it felt like I had seen her somewhere before, she was just familiar to me.

 

[Brambling]

Breakfast time at Chez Nous by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

also a familiar face! - God, what's wrong with me?)

 

[Brambling]

Yes my maternal grandparents were born in the 1890s, possibly the 1880s. They were both in their 80s when I took this in 1972. They had interesting stories about country life before motor vehicles.

Here’s my parents with them taken at the same time...
#123

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I just see familiar scenes from life...

 

[skopar steve]

3200 printed on Forte fiber base paper. Camera was M6 lens 90mm2.8 Tele Elmarit.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Looking like I do in Japan in summer Mike, finding yourself physiologically unsuited to the general combination of heat and humidity, and desperately trying to stay cool. But looking much less hot, bothered and unhappy about it all than me! Good work.

Thank you, Marty, much appreciated. Summer in Japan is a challenge and it's getting harder every year. Preparation and a positive attitude help me get through the season. BTW, the goofy hat I'm wearing is to protect my ears from getting sunburned, or worse getting skin cancer!

All the best,
Mike