Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/15/01 2:37:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mxsmanic@hotmail.com writes: << take an absolutely top-quality image of the Lone Cypress, digitize it, and release the image to the public domain, thereby allowing anyone to use the image for anything, >> Now THERE'S an idea that appeals to me. Somewhere in my collection of stuff sit several Kodachrome slides I took in 1959 (I was a very young Navy officer stationed at N.A.S. Alameda, CA) of Cypress Point, the TREE, and a world-renowned Hollywood cinema queen embracing a gentleman friend (at that time you could actually stroll out to Cypress Point and kiss under the TREE without objection from anyone at all). I was myself on the footpath halfway out to the Point, focussed my trusty Leica IIIf and 50 Summitar and fired away; too far away, I switched to my trusty 127mm/4.5 Wollensak (damned screw-mounts take a long time to swap) and made a couple more before she recovered her composure, removed herself from his embrace, looked at me with a frown and said: "you know, we're copyrighted!" Just kidding about the last. Now I have to find the slides. Damn! Seth LaK 9