Happy Birthday Helena

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“Coming Back To Me” – Jefferson Airplane (Marty Balin)

The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long.
The winter looked the same,
As if it had never gone,
And through an open window,
Where no curtain hung,
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

One begins to read between
The pages of a book.
The shape of sleepy music,
And suddenly, you're hooked.

Through the rain on the trees

That kisses on the run,
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

You came to stay and live my way,
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind.
You always say you won't go away,
But I know what it always has been,
It always has been.

A transparent dream
Beneath an occasional sigh...
Most of the time,
I just let it go by.
Now I wish it hadn't begun.
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

Strolling the hills
Overlooking the shore,
I realize I've been here before.
The shadow in the mist
Could have been anyone -
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

Small things like reasons
Are put in a jar.
Whatever happened to wishes,
Wished on a star?
Was it just something
That I made up for fun?
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

 

From the record "Surrealistic Pillow" (1967)

 

 

 

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Frankfurt am Main - August 2012

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“Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon” (Paul Kantner)

Won't you try
won't you try
find a way to need someone
find a way to see
find a way and need someone and the sunshine will set you free
won't you try
with love before we’re gone
won’t you try

Saturday afternoon
Saturday afternoon
when your head is feeling fine
you can ride inside our car
I will give you caps of blue and silver sunlight for your hair
all that soon will be what you need to see, my love
won't you try
won't you try
I do care that you do see
Is it time to leave, my lady
yes it is I know
round about and everywhere sunshine instead of snow
times can't change that what I say is true

I’ll come through for you
and I’ll come through for you, my love
won’t you try
won’t you try
Saturday afternoon
yellow clouds rising in the noon
acid incense and balloons
Saturday afternoon
people dancing everywhere , loudly shouting I dont care
it’s a time for growing and a time for knowing
Saturday afternoon
Saturday afternoon (wont you try)
Saturday afternoon ( wont you try )
wont you try (saturday afternoon)
wont you try ( saturday afternoon)
wont you try

From the album “After Bathing at Baxter’s” by Jefferson Airplane (1967)

 

 

Technical Data:

Camera - Leica M4

Lenses - Elmarit-M 2.8/28mm + Summicron-M 2.0/50mm

Film - Agfa APX 100

Developer - R09, 1+50

Date - August 2012

Location - Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Scanner - Epson 4990

 

 

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Lisbon - City of Light, City of Pain (2012)

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Shot with Leica M3 or M4 cameras.

Kodak T-Max 400 developed in Kodak D-76 1+1.

Lisbon, Portugal, in the year 2012.

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Film Cameras For Lovers - Leica M4 (Photo Gear 15)

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The Leica M4 was introduced in 1967.

It combined some of the features of previous models, the Leica M3 and M2: the viewfinder - magnification 0,72 - was the most complete of them all, having the frames for the 35, 50, 90 and 135mm lenses (M3 = 50, 90 and 135mm; M2 = 35, 50 and 90mm).

On the Leica M4, the 35mm and the 135mm brightlines appear together. They appear automatically when you insert a certain lens, or you can preview the field of view of a given lens with the preview lever.

Leica M4 + Summicron 50mm

Other novelties of the Leica M4 included a new rewind lever instead of the old extendable knob (much slower to operate) and an improved loading system, without the separate take-up spool.

You only have to insert the end of the film into the slots of a fixed take-up spool.

These new features obviouslly contribute for a much faster and easier change of film.

Leica M4 + Super-Angulon 21mm + external finder

Most other (minor) changes were of cosmetic nature - at least from the outside - but I should maybe still point out the new shape of the angled advance lever with its hinged plastic tip. I find it more confortable and more reassuring to use.

Somehow it feels better to me, but that's just my opinion... I know that other people prefer the old-style lever. 

Leica M4 + Elmarit 28mm + external finder

Production of the Leica M4 officially stopped in 1971, although some small batches have been manufactured at a later time.

Some special models were made for use with motor-drives - marked M4 MOT or just M4M - and some models were produced for the American Army - known as KE-7A, made by Ernst Leitz Canada, in Midland.

You can find the Leica M4 manufactured in standard chrome finish or black enamelled, later cameras were also produced in black chrome. Both plants in Wetzlar, Germany, and Midland, Canada, produced the M4.

I could be tempted to think, that the Leica M4 represents the last classic production M camera, the pinnacle of the german camera industry, the cherry on top of the cake!

But then again maybe no, that place must be reserved - at least chronologically speaking - for a (maybe) less appealing - not meaning less innovative! - camera, the Leica M5.

Let's leave that story for another day...

Greetings to you all!

Leica M4 + Summicron 50mm

Fátima - Portugal, May 13th, 2011

(Agfa APX 100, Kodak X-tol 1+1)

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Porto Brandão, Portugal - August 2011

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Technical data:
Camera - Leica M4
Lenses - Leitz Summicron 35mm + Tele-Elmarit 90mm
Film - Agfa APX 100
Developer - Kodak D-76, 1+1
Location - Porto Brandão, Portugal
Date - August 2011
Scanner - Epson Perfection 4990 Photo


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Meu tempo é quando

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Tomar, Abril de 2011

Leica M4 + Summicron 35mm

"Poética" - Vinicius de Moraes


De manhã escureço
De dia tardo
De tarde anoiteço
De noite ardo.


A oeste a morte
Contra quem vivo
Do sul cativo
O este é meu norte.

Outros que contem
Passo por passo;
Eu morro ontem


Nasço amanhã
Ando onde há espaço;
- Meu tempo é quando.


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