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1 hour ago, sdv said:

I clicked on the original photo and the crop in order to be able to the see the entire image in each case on my laptop without scrolling and, just for a contrasting opinion, I preferred your original image that included part of the tower at the top. I've seen so many images of a similar sort with birds in flight that even the interesting element of the stairs and the figure on them is not enough to prevent the cropped version from seeming a little too familiar to me. Whereas the tower, for me, is what sets it apart from all those similar images I've seen and makes it memorable and a little surprising. I write this, long after your original post, just to offer a different opinion. I wonder what you decided upon and how you'd view it now.

I love photography.  My wife often says how many times can I take a photo of say El Capitan in Yosemite.  I tell her the light is different, and it makes me see things differently than the last time. It will emphasize different parts of the scene and draw my eye to maybe make a nice tight shot of a detail or to look wider to capture what I am feeling at the time. Two photographers standing in the same place will have different interpretations of what that scene means to them and their photos will look different.  And when I then view their work I think, why did I not see that, I really like it, or What did they see?  I don't.  Then the next time I will look for different things or just look differently at the same thing.  And enjoy taking and viewing other people's view.

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Haarlem, Teylers museum (oldest one in The Netherlands, 1778), Q3 28mm 

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Haarlem, Teylers museum (oldest one in The Netherlands, 1778), Q3 28mm 

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The versatility of the Apo lens is one of the great pleasures of this camera...  Much as I love my M10-R and current travel set of 35 Cron Asph and VC 90 APO f2.8, the Q3 43 gives so much in one package that I'm loathe to leave it at home!

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Some of these posted images are truly outstanding while others could have been shot with an iphone.

Truly, the art of photography is in the one holding the camera.

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On 4/16/2025 at 12:41 PM, Aram Langhans said:

I love photography.  My wife often says how many times can I take a photo of say El Capitan in Yosemite.  I tell her the light is different, and it makes me see things differently than the last time. It will emphasize different parts of the scene and draw my eye to maybe make a nice tight shot of a detail or to look wider to capture what I am feeling at the time. Two photographers standing in the same place will have different interpretations of what that scene means to them and their photos will look different.  And when I then view their work I think, why did I not see that, I really like it, or What did they see?  I don't.  Then the next time I will look for different things or just look differently at the same thing.  And enjoy taking and viewing other people's view.

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I imagine one could take an infinite number of pics of El Capitan for the reasons you said, and for even more reasons that you'll discover as you continue the process over time. The thing is, too, that the process you describe of viewing others work also applies to one's own: so I'll look at a pic I've cropped and suddenly wonder, Why in the world did I do that? It's much better uncropped. Or look at an uncropped one and suddenly see that cropping is exactly what's needed. Or come upon a RAW file I never even bothered to process years earlier because I thought it not worth the time and discover that it turns out to be  much better than the images around it that I did process back then. There's always something...

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With my Leica Q3 in hand, I walked up to the John Hancock building in Chicago and looked straight up into a dark and threatening sky. 🙂

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I'm just wondering if anyone posting here has both the Q3 and the Q2 Monochrom and would like to share their thoughts on how Q3 files converted to B/W stack up to the Q2M files. I have the Q2M and I've read a lot about (and experienced myself) the amazing things the Q2M can do in basically the dark. In fact, I've read a lot of comparisons, I was just wondering if anyone posting here who now has or has formerly had both would be interested in saying anything about their own experience of either getting rid of the Q2M when they got the Q3 or deciding to keep both cameras.

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Made the switch from the Q3 28 to the Q3 43 — only had limited time to take a couple of snaps here and there, but it's really lovely.

Literally the first snap I took 🌸

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Some ducklings pottering about... 🐥

Edit: Apologies, I didn't realise there was a specific Q3 43 image thread, I shall repost there.

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Apologies, I didn't realise there was a specific Q3 43 image thread, I shall repost there.
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Salin d’Aigues-Mortes, France

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