Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That 's fine and dandy. There are beautiful and pristine locales in all the world. The point here is that intelligent people do not go on bragging that *their* country has the grandest , the bestest, and the mostest, the of every thing, only ignoramuses do. The author of the original post should get off his/her chauvinistic high horse. Beauty abounds around the earth, be it natural, man-made, animal, or human. Joseph Codispoti . - ----- Original Message ----- From: John Hudson <jahudson@direct.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Nature in USA/Canada and elsewhere > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Alex van Hulsenbeek <sanderva@yahoo.com> >To: <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 4:26 AM >Subject: [Leica] Nature in USA/Canada and elsewhere > > >> Eri wrote >> >> <The wide open spaces exist nowhere else on earth <like >> the Western U.S. and Canada. >> >> Eric, >> >> I venture to differ. Are you forgetting Asia (10.000 km >> wide!) and Africa? I have seen 'old growth forests' in >> Siberia, in the Sayan Mountains near Baikal Lake, that >> were unearthly beautifull. And the wide open skies >> above the sandy expanse of the Great Western Erg in >> Algeria, not to mention the skies at night, are also >> not of this world. Trues, both places are poorly >> accesible. but untouched spaces do exist beyond the >> American continenst: lots of them! >> > >There are some very fine photo opportunities in the urban forest just five >blocks from my house which is located in a major metro area in Canada. One >does not have to travel to "exotic" faraway places to capture winning >photos! > >jh > > >