Coraline shoots a Leica, how cool is that?

Three photographs featured in this months release
of Phirebrush, Issue #52.

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Low Tide, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California. July 2007.

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Leica cameras and lenses are often considered precise, effective, and well-built: the epitome of photographic form and function…while some perceive the company and it’s products as overpriced, inflated, and overrated. Perhaps the following story about the “Leica Freedom Train” will have some readers acknowledging Leica and it’s founder, Ernst Leitz II, as symbols of humanity in our people’s history.

As soon as Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in 1933, Ernst Leitz II began receiving frantic calls from Jewish associates, asking for his help in getting them and their families out of the country. (more…)

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers form a sequence that after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on. A tiling with squares whose sides are successive Fibonacci numbers in length gives us the pattern shown.

The Golden Rectangle is defined as a rectangle that can be partioned into a square and a smaller rectangle which has the same aspect ratio of the original rectangle successively. Mathematically a ratio of about 3.2:2. The logarithmic spiral, or the “Spira Mirabilis” created by this ratio are found throughout nature, as in the contours of Nautilus shells or sunflowers.

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