Prague, finally!

My public, maybe all three or four of you, may have been wondering if I actually did take any photos while in Prague, and I did.  I did it the old fashioned way, with film and old cameras.  You know, cutting edge technology, circa 1970 or so.  For those geeks who care enough to wonder or amazingly, ask, the color shots were taken with a Leica R5 with 50 Summicron, and most of the black and whites were taken with a Leica M4 with a 50 Summicron.  Little was done to the photos other than lightly correct the lightness or darkness and crop the photos.

I am not sure of the results.  I have become a lazy photographer--the newer cameras, all of which are exponentially smarter than I am accomplish the same thing with far less work and expense.  What is the deal with all this focusing and figuring out the exposure?  That said, it was still  fun to shoot 15 rolls of film.  I think that the last time that I did that was in 1998 when I went to Africa.  And I do like Leicas and that lens is one of the classic lenses of all time and when there isn't a nut loose behind the viewfinder (sorry, old camera repairman's joke) it is the sharpest lens around even though these lenses were about 50 years old.

The trip was great.  The weather was the best I have ever experienced in in Prague, and I even came back with a bit of a tan.  The beer was exceptional, and again the city proved to be a perfect walking city.  My phone said several days I walked over eight miles so that was good for an old(er) person.  All in all, roads were more or less traveled and diems sum carptus.  I couldn't have asked for a better break.

Of course, the re-entry into reality has been a bit harsh.  I heard this recently and I find it so true--the choices we get to make are the ones we don't always want to make.  I would not choose to move when I have to, but now that  this choice is made, I am making a ton of other choices.  Some are big--hmmm...just where will I live?  Some are smaller, mostly on the scale of what goes and what stays with me.  Some things need a good home that is not my home.  Some things just need to go somewhere that isn't near me.

The choices will get made and the work will get done.  And if I get tired or woebegone I will remember that was recently in Prague.