Black & White picking on folk!

Yup. We were at it again! It was street performing time for My Friend Lisa again this afternoon/tonight.

We all met up on Granville Street and found us a sheltered spot out of the rain and we played a bunch of songs. In fact we played a bunch of songs for nearly 4 hours at various spots along Granville street. We had an awesome visit from a man named Arnold. He was really drunk, and he had an upside down cross tattooed on his forehead. Thankfully Lani who is very experienced at dealing with the drunkin Arnold’s of the world was able to get him to not sit down smack dab in the middle of our circle.

We sort of had a nice rotating cast of performers that came and went as their schedules allowed, and worry not Renee for next time we will totally remember to bring out the awesome Casio of DOOM!!! for you to rock out upon. Although I have to say you were doing pretty good with the making up songs as we went!!

While the Leica M9 doesn’t preform like the new Canon’s in low light, it is still pretty remarkable at night time photos. The highest ISO is 2500 which compared to ISO 25600 that the new 5D has seems quite low, but it is still quite useable. While there is a fair amount of grain at these higher ISO’s it is a more natural film like grain which can really add to the mood of some photos.

For those that have no idea where the heck I am talking about, Railtown is the kinda the forgotten area north of Alexander Street. Running east of Main street till somewhere near Hawks Ave.

Railtown is where I live, where we work, and where I get delicious coffee. It is also flush with awesome photo opportunities.

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/750 Aperture: 3.4 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/90 Aperture: 16 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/2000 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/1000 Aperture: 9.5 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

This Bike was for sale on Pender street near the China town gates :) I was tempted to buzz 406 and ask the story.

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/500 Aperture: 6.7 ISO: 200 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

This truck was parked on water street and has what looks like a potted plant in the spare tire. AWESOME!

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/3000 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012