Uva Da Vino 2

@Lucca: Thanks, Lucca! I set out to photograph the sign and a bit of the building around it, but in the end I was so attracted to that wet street...

@Duncan Galbraith: What's tricky is trying to manage a camera and an umbrella at the same time... That's what I was doing in this shot. This is interesting: I usually avoid shooting with the widest angle of the zoom lens on this camera because of the barrel distortion, or if I do, I usually 'fix' it in Photoshop. Here I left it as shot and it has a slight fisheye look to it which for my money worked with the reflected light on the street. Thanks, Duncan!

@Helen: Tell me more; tell me more... Thanks, Helen!

@Sean Bailey: Many thanks, Sean! Getting the blue diamonds to maintain their glow in black and white was a bit of a chore. I used a bit of extreme tweaking in the channel mixer to get what I wanted.

@Rene: I'll take that as a compliment (and at a $3000 saving too!) I'm sure the true Leicaphiles would beg to differ, though, and I'd hope the 35mm f2 Summicron-M Aspherical wouldn't dare exhibit this kind of distortion. Thanks, Rene!