Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Parochial Geographic PIcking up dinner last night i was scanning the scanner; Drudging through the Globe. Sniffing through the Smoking Gun, Gazing throughthe Star Magazine Enquirering through the National Enquirer lost going through the National Geographic right next to these tabs. . . . . My Neigherhood where ia've lived for 25 years. NW Portland That's the NW of the NW. As people think of Portland as the Great NW. (OK Seatle) http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature6/assignment1.html "Chapman Elementary School has a huge brick chimney that is the world's largest migratory gallery for Vaux's swifts. A lot of them live in Forest Park during warm months, but just before the fall migration about 40,000 of them roost inside the chimney. At the same time each night, around dusk, they swirl down like a tornado, and hundreds of people sit on the school lawn to watch. It's like gathering for Fourth of July fireworks. Sometimes hawks come and pick the swifts out in midair—nature red in tooth and claw, right before your eyes. In past years the pupils were afraid that turning on the heating system would hurt the birds, so they voted to keep it off and just wear sweaters to school until the swifts were gone. With help from the local Audubon club, the school has since installed a new heating system that bypasses the roosting chimney altogether, so now the birds have it all to themselves. " Yes yes yes perfect Noctilux fodder. I don't know if it says anything about my neighborhood but all the photos were done with a jig saw patch together approach. Darkman check this out! Also the Photographer said rain and big trees made for no light. No Noct. No canon F1, no Nikon POC 50 F1. 2 or 28 F1. 4 800 color neg flim. (I know I know they wont take it) Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com Mark Rabiner Photography Fashion 1905 NW 23rd Place Portland OR USA 97210-2535 Studio/Home: 503-221-0301 Cellphone: 503-515-5565 Fax: 503-221-0308 mark@rabinergroup.com http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html