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The windswept summit of Santa Fe mountain (12,000′ elevation) taken with an X2 last week. While the X2 is certainly a minimalist's camera I'm very happy to have 16mpx with a gorgeous lens and CMOS sensor in my parka pocket while skiing. Opens up a whole new world. Yes, I could have captured this image with my iphone5 or D-Lux5 but the image quality out of the X2 is so much more refined. It is a lovely, easy Leica to operate one-handed (which was helpful in the bitter cold) and I have not yet found the need to use the accessory viewfinder.
Image edited with LR&PS.
PS The bright specks in the sky were blowing snow and ice crystals.

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Cira’s love for black and white photography was sparked thirty years ago by the legendary Leicaflex SL2, film predecessor of the current Leica SL system. While the SL is her go-to, she has used and/or completed professional projects with every major Leica system of the past century. For the past ten years Cira’s work has increasingly focused on mountains, from her home in the Rockies, to the Canadian Rockies, Alps, Japan, and the Himalayas. Even on extreme adventures Cira approaches her photographs with a poetic, philosophical eye, infusing images with technical detail as well as deep meaning. Her large-scale prints have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at Leica Gallery in Los Angeles. Three of Cira’s photographs are part of the corporate collection at Leica Camera USA.

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  1. Oleg

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