Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I note the smiley. I think that that great mirror thwacking away would have spoilt the moment. I've shot my F1 (old) in there with the 135/2. You can do it, but it's not ideal. I will be delighted to meet you or any other visiting Lugger at the Leafe. I find Colonial Williamsburg to be a bit sterile for my taste--at least so far as photography goes--but it is a lovely place to visit, and certainly one can make some nice images there, especially off season. Mike Durling, whom I'm ashamed to say I've never met, is a photographer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (I think), and would doubtless share pointers. Chandos At 12:44 PM 9/16/01 -0400, you wrote: >Chandos- >At the risk of sounding crass- I bet a Canon 1N with a 50mm/f1 lens, and the >AF and AE might have been real handy then!! Notice the smiley! :o) >This place sounds like a really delightful 'watering hole'! If the Better >Half finally gets me to take a trip to Williamsburg, I'd like to visit it, >and perhaps, buy you a brewski, and we can discuss the Peloponnesian Wars >while we toss a few back! >Dan >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chandos Michael Brown" <cmbrow@wm.edu> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 5:14 PM >Subject: [Leica] very recent stuff > > > > > > I've posted many photographs of the Green Leafe, my local pub here in > > Williamsburg, VA, on the Leica Users Group over the past few years. My > > project is to document the small part of the world that I inhabit. I know > > many of the people I photograph, though I see few of them outside of the > > environs of this place. In any event, I find the normality of the scene > > somehow bracing and perdurable--something to hold on to. All of these are > > recent. Two I shot early in the evening of Sept. 11. > > > > I was carrying a single, walk-around body and lens, and ran out of film > > during Bush's speech. I'd been concentrating on the TV and the people I > > was with, but when I went to rewind and reload, I glanced to my left to >see > > a sea of faces peering intently at the screen. The speech ended as I > > finished loading, and the crowd dispersed before I could frame the > > shot. That particular image is preserved only memory. > > > > Chandos > > > > > > > > Green Leafe, last couple of weeks > > > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/brewer.htm > > > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/highball.htm > > > > >http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/john_and_elenore.htm > > > > > > Green Leafe, Sept 11 > > > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/sept1101.htm > > > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/sept1102.htm > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html