Post your "Not a Leica, I love it anyway" Shots

I've not posted a single photo in this forum in about three years although I view the forum every day.  I will share two with you that I took while in New Orleans for Mardi Gras.  Mardi Gras is full of color, but here are two that I felt benefited from Black & White conversion.  I shot over 1500 frames while in New Orleans for a week of great fun, parades, food and Mardi Gras revelry.  If there is one city and people that begs to be photographed, it is New Orleans.

Best to view the original size.

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Jim Radcliffe
http://www.boxedlight.com
The ability to 'see' the shot is more important than the gear used to capture it.