I do a lot of photography with Leica and for years have been an active member of the Leica Forum and The Leica Society. Every year, in October, the forum arrange a weekend meeting somewhere in Europe, where we can participate in what is called the “One Challenge”. This goes back to the old film days when a roll of film comprised of 36 images. Basically each Photographer has 2 hours in which to take 36 images and then the worldwide forum votes for the best. Really the weekend is more about meeting likeminded people, having a chat, a couple of drinks and a good meal, the Challenge being very secondary. Some of the ones we’ve attended have been in Malta, Copenhagen, Vienna, Rome, Palermo (Sicily), Wetzlar (Germany), Istanbul, Seville and Rome.
A couple of years ago we decided that every two years we would hold a “Long Distance Challenge” and so far these have been in Japan, Australia and the last one was in New York. My wife and myself decided to go a couple of weeks early and tour the Northeast US and some of these images were taken on that trip.