Vespa & Whiskey

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I'll be honest with you. I'd spent the day doing what the Quartier Bouffay does best — supporting the local hospitality industry with some enthusiasm. Somewhere between lunch and l ate afternoon I'd slipped into the beautiful Église Sainte-Croix, perhaps to balance the accounts a little.Coming back out into the afternoon light, I turned a corner and stopped dead.There it was. A Vespa, resting against a whiskey crate as casually as if it had always been there. Vintage, unhurried, completely itself. The kind of scene you spend years hoping to stumble across.I reached for the Praktica MTL3 — the same camera and Pentacon 50mm f1.8 lens I first learned photography on in the 1980s — and didn't think twice. Some moments don't ask for deliberation.Right place. Right time. Right camera.Shot on Praktica MTL3 with Pentacon 50mm f1.8 — Quartier Bouffay, Nantes, FrancePrinted at 30 × 45 cm through WhiteWall in Berlin. Choose the bare print, acrylic glass, a mounted frame, or a floater frame — what the finishes actually mean. Show more