Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Harrison, We needed this. And need more. Jim At 12:20 AM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >Just thought I would relate my day, esp this evening to the LUG. > >I am currently in Dyersburg, Tennessee working on one of the magazines we >do. I have shot around 20 some odd rolls of film since yesterday at 2pm >and have photographed everthing from the head of a national building >company, who I took into the middle field of wheat to shoot with one of >their buildings in the background to going out into the flooded >Mississippii River with a copule of local High school youths. I was >trying to get a shot of the I-155 river bridge with the sun setting >behind it for the cover of our magazine. It would have been an easy >shot...except the river was way out of its banks and over the road I >needed to be on. I was talking about my problem with a local police >officer while doing a photo shoot with him and he linked me up with his >brother who had the boat. > >We were out tooling around the backwaters of the Mississippii river in a >small 14 foot john boat with a 9 horse motor trying to line up a shot. >The fellows had to get out and pull the boat in some low spots (They were >wearing hip boots) and we all three got eaten up by misquotes, they were >so thick at some points the drone was surrealistic. We did our best to >stay out of the current as the boat was not powerful enough to match the >strength of the mighty Mississippii. > >It did end up making a very nice photo with the sun setting as a big ball >of fire below the bridge with reflections on the water, and would have >looked even nicer had I been able to shoot from dry land where I could >have used a tripod and gotten the pretty magenta color on the water as >the sun dipped below the horizon, but the shot is good as is and looked >great throught the R8 and 90 summicron. > >Of course all my gear now smells like dead fish and my camera bag has mud >and river flood water all over it. > >Sure beats the heck out of working for a living. > > > >Harrison McClary >http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto >