I love this lens to bits. 21mm is a daring focal length, and the maximum aperture of 1,8 makes it a king of the evening hours...
Here follows the story.
***
Emergence
The air was clear and bright; white clouds were running high against a concave sky. The city uncommonly sleepy, its collection of old stones serendipitously displayed under the sun. A lonely figure left behind those dry ancient bones, aiming east, to the suburbs.
The suburbs had once been taken over by self-proclaimed developers, buried in concrete boxes that started fading immediately after being completed. Only recently, the spoils started being leveled and replaced by new architectures.
Glass and steel doubled the surrounding desolation. But that particular day a glorious sky above partially compensated the mundane below.
Some buildings looked like having just moored, ready to set sail again for the high seas.
Some buildings felt like they themselves were the sails, swollen with wind, incrusted with salt and mould.
And the sign was there, always.
Daring structures, yet with a feeling of incompleteness, reflections changing into transparencies, curves matching angles and angles matching curves and squares and circles channeling the new into the timeless.
Inside, in a corner of dark, an epiphany on glass and out again, a stairway to the clouds.
@adi314 thank you very much! @jgpittenger yes its only manual. I use it via a Leica m adapter to Sony e mount. I don’t to much star photography, but the sharpness of this lens even wide open is a very good promise! Thank you. @pdulis thank you very much! @amyk thanks a lot! @sdutoit thank you! @ludwigsdiana thank you kindly, Diana! @graemestevens maybe too many... lol @joysabin thank you very much! I liked the reflection/transparency effect, recalls some of the shots in the series. @ziggy77 thank you so much! @fayefaye thank you a lot! @leonbuys83 thanks a lot Leon! @fbailey thank you very much, really appreciated! @s4sayer too kind of you, thanks! @stray_shooter thank you very much! Something coming!
@jgpittenger yes its only manual. I use it via a Leica m adapter to Sony e mount. I don’t to much star photography, but the sharpness of this lens even wide open is a very good promise! Thank you.
@pdulis thank you very much!
@amyk thanks a lot!
@sdutoit thank you!
@ludwigsdiana thank you kindly, Diana!
@graemestevens maybe too many... lol
@joysabin thank you very much! I liked the reflection/transparency effect, recalls some of the shots in the series.
@ziggy77 thank you so much!
@fayefaye thank you a lot!
@leonbuys83 thanks a lot Leon!
@fbailey thank you very much, really appreciated!
@s4sayer too kind of you, thanks!
@stray_shooter thank you very much! Something coming!
@jyokota Too kind of you, Junko, thanks a lot!