It’s been a while since I decided to start down the road of taking pictures for one year with a Leica. I bought an M6 that hadn’t seen much use and by the end of last year, picked up a Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm 2.5 lens to accompany it (and promptly lost the lens cap). For a few weeks, I shot with colour and black and white. I taught myself to develop my own film, with varying levels of success. I started using diafine because I tend to take pictures of friends in bars while we are out. The downside of this is that I can’t stop down enough when there’s enough light outside.
I’m struggling with how to properly scan my film, but that’s not really an excuse to not start this project in earnest. And so, I’m going to be taking pictures for a whole year, with my M6, 35 f2.5 and Tri-X 400. I’m going to try to document each frame as well as I can, if only for myself, but scans should be up here every so often. Just give me a few days to finish and scan the first few rolls.
Thanks to OneOne365, Leica Year, zbzb, filmus-monochromus, and James Wilson for providing me with a lot of inspiration to get started.
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