I’ve spent the last month or so experimenting with my new Mirrorless Leica SLR -3. It’s been exciting. The last few weeks, I’ve been home a lot recovering from two surgeries, and every day I take some time to experiment.

I’m looking for pictures that are complex and test my skills. I succeed sometimes and fail, but I always learn something.

Here are three of my experiments:

The first, above, was a clothesline blowing in the wind, I was inside the house looking out. The camera has a fast setting, and I caught the wind precisely as I saw it. This was taken with a 55 mm portrait lens, a great camera for short distances. It’s a Sigma lens.

The second camera, below

This photo was also taken in the wind; it’s slightly out of focus, a bit too far for the 55 mm. I should have adjusted the focus a little more.

I am learning the distances for the shots I want, I am primarily on auto-focus, but I want to shift to manual.

I need more practice before I can do that well, then I’ll take the plunge. Truthfully, I’m a little intimidated by the Leicas; they are so much smarter than I am.

I also took this picture this afternoon with the 55 mm portrait lens.

I got just the effect I wanted, beautiful flowers filling the screen. Each of these images taught me something different about my camera and lens.

I love learning and am amazed at the human ability to keep growing at any age.

And I have so much more to learn.