Painting a Picture with The Leica M8

Painting is not the word most people would use to describe the action of using a camera to end up with a picture. Shooting, capturing, or taking is the more common phrase here. And yet…I hear the phrase “let me paint you a picture” all the time. So I guess you can “paint” a picture with words or watercolor, but not a camera?

I’ve been thinking about this because in the right conditions - it really feels like you can paint a picture the M8. Paintings with beautiful colors and just the right balance of sharpness and softness.

That’s not to say all photos from the M8 turn out great…this camera really paints in colorful environments on bright sunny days. In anything else, I’d say it shoots okay, not bad or anything, but not painting.

some Paintings from this month:

Thanks for reading.