Vientiane with Leica M6

[Nick De Marco]

Visited Lao's capital this February and took photos with my Leica M6 with Kodak Tri-X and Fuji Reala (as well as many with Canon 5D).

Here is one of the Leica shots ("3 Woks")



To visit the whole Vientiane gallery please follow the link

http://www.pbase.com/nickdemarco/vientiane_by_day

Thanks

Nick

 

[__hh]

I totally enjoyed the whole series... thank you...

BTW.. great choice of gear....

 

[meven]

Excellent series, thank you for sharing.

Max

 

[jplomley]

Interesting. When did you decide to pull out the M6 vs the 5D? Did you oftentimes find yourself torn?

 

[icebear]

My personal favorite :

natural spotlight, very dense atmosphere captured in an everyday object, like it !

 

[Nick De Marco]

Thanks for the comments

JP - yes sometimes torn - especially when doing quick street photography. But it's not too difficult to have the 5D around your neck constantly shooting and the M6 on your shoulder. Sometimes you just feel a shot would look better in film, and if you have both cameras you shoot it in film and digital. Other days (such as when I took the woks) I would just decide to go out for a walk with the M6 and leave the heavy gear in the hotel.

Here is another one from the series

icebear I like that one too for the lighting - and it is a good example of a shot I saw and thought would work well on film B&W but had no intention of shooting it with digital.

http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?t=36641

 

[jplomley]

Thanks Nick. The reason I ask is that I am considering a D300/14-24 combo, but my fear is that it will distract my primary focus, which should be on the subject matter and not which camera to use. But you seem to do extremely well juggling both systems...

 

[dshugar]

Thanks Nick - your photos really made me want to go back to Lao PDR - possibly my wife and I's favourite country anywhere!

 

[Nick De Marco]

It is beautiful. But I preferred Luang Prebang even more than Vientienne. I will be working on producing galleries ffrom my days there over the next weeks/months and hopefully that will make you want to go back to such a lovely place even more