Best It Was Dark Up On That Roof

Thursday night was Melissa's birthday party, an annual late-summer affair. I was out of work early enough to go (I'm sorry that all posts for the time being will start with an explanation of what work did or didn't let me get to) and since I knew I'd be up on a dark roof, I brought my Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.1 lens with me. I got this lens nearly 4 years ago and it's fun but so hard to focus. As my new Leica has live view that makes negotiating it's super thin depth of field a little easier, but still hard. This post begins with varied photos taken in low low light.

I bumped into Tamara on my way to Melissa's. Here she is being patient with me as we wait for the elevator to Melissa's roof. Oh wait, there wasn't an elevator to the roof? No biggie. Not afraid of a few stairs.

Just a little bit of the view from that roof.

Portrait of the birthday girl by candlelight.

Over there: Alexis and Sara.

Over here: Melissa and I.

Right here: Two Harvardians, Ashley and Mencius.

And those were all the most-usable photos of the night. I close with three more street pictures from my dark walk home.

Thank you for putting up with my constantly pointing out that it is dark at night and that means that there is not much light.