Mysterious Woman with a Parasol

Woman with a Parasol – New York, New York In an age of athleisure and other casual clothing, you don’t often see a woman in a white dress complete with a parasol. I spotted her in the Tribeca/SoHo area, and I had to take a picture. The first photo was the easier one, shot with the Leica D-Lux 8, a compact, autofocusing camera with a zoom lens. As I gently followed the woman, I made several exposures, zooming to different focal lengths. I guess I was double zooming, both with my feet and the camera, creating what I thought was the ideal framing. The arrangement of pedestrians sort of forms an inverted V-shape, with the woman at the central apex. Making this next photograph took more tries and required more skill. Using a Leica M Monochrom, with its old-school manual focusing lens, can be challenging even when the subject is stationary. In this case, both she and I were moving as I attempted to use the rangefinder to lock proper focus. This was my favorite picture from the M, with the…