D.J. De La Vega's photostream  

I used to work as freelance photographer doing any job that came in: weddings, portraiture, events, fashion etc. However I just did not enjoy producing work for other people and began to get bored of photography. I'd always sworn I'd rather have a mundane job than a mundane job in photography, so I retired very young.

My Nikon DSLR gear grew very dusty...Then enter into my life the little Leica's. I started with the D-Lux 3 then the D-Lux 4 and now shoot with the Leica X1. These little cameras revolutionised my entire photographic philosophy and reinvigorated my love of photography. I began to shoot every day and now never leave the house without a camera!

I photograph for me, what I want, when I want, wherever I take my camera or wherever it takes me. It is far more fulfilling and liberating taking photos for the love of it than to take them to pay the rent.