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Good composition and excellent placement of the manhole access and leaf. I didn't realise Leica cameras could focus this close.

Nice.!
Do you have more of these.... maybe wider.?
Whatever that is, a print or a scan, ..... a scan......the exposure looks perfect.!

A whole series of this stuff......drains, grills, manhole covers, fire hydrants and related Street/Water shots might go over pretty well for you.

I think most people are intrigued by Letters/Words that have been written in wet cement.
Especially stuff that has been around for quite a long time.
I can see what looks like the letter 'P' right below the caulking.
It's kind of natural to wonder who did it and what they were thinking about at the time.


At the risk of repeating myself....... Nice Job.!

Thanks for the kind words. There is one other image that is just slightly wider, but not enough to make much difference. Living in Brooklyn, especially in marginally gentrified neighborhoods, one gets used to scanning the sidewalk in order to avoid the leavings of indifferent dog owners. This has led to many random sidewalk images.

There are ways to manage focusing a Leica closer than 0.7 meter. For M cameras there is a Visoflex, or my favorite the Dual Range Summicron, or SOOKY-M (SOMKY). For LTM Leica's there is the Sooky (summicron ltm 5 cm), Nooky (Elmar 5 cm), and Nooky-hesum (Hektor, Summar, Summitar 5 cm).