[Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon

[s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)]

most enjoyable thanks for the link
simon jes
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From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon


> B.D.,
> It's funny how perceptions vary.  I found the marathon essay pedantic
> and uninspired: nothing revealing to me in the essay about running,
> exhaustion, pushing on.  Obviously, others have a 180.
> 
> However, http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm is an incredible
> essay.  Someone like I have never known is revealed with words and in
> images that entirely describe the subject in visual terms.  This student
> needs to be moved to head of the line.
> 
> 0.02
> 
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of B. D. Colen
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:41 PM
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> 
> Thanks, Simon - It both shocked and delighted me, because she had
> already virtually completed a project on a little municipal airport and
> the old duffers there who fly restored WWII trainers - she had gone up
> with them on a formation flight! And then lo and behold in she walked
> with that...
> 
> Here, btw, are a couple of the other projects....
> My Kyle-to-be
> http://web.mit.edu/yamima/www/
> One of my writers forced to use a camera
> http://web.mit.edu/vatz/www/photo/ogilvie/index.html
> The best of the lot in a straight-ahead, pj sense..
> http://web.mit.edu/jtwang/www/docphoto
> And the one that left the viewers in stunned silence...
> http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm
> 
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> animal
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > So one of my students, who had already done most of the work on a 
> > project on a little airport outside Boston, decided that she was going
> 
> > to make her real project a look at the Boston Marathon from a runner's
> 
> > point of view - which is to say she ran the entire thing with an 
> > Olympus C5050 in hand.
> > 
> > Like a number of the students, she was new to photography when the 
> > semester began, and she was given cropping advice on a number of the 
> > images. But that said - I think what she did is pretty terrific... 
> > http://web.mit.edu/jumpbean/www/marathon/index.htm
> > 
> > B. D.
> > 
> > More of these as they're put up. There are a couple that are pretty 
> > amazing, conceptually if not technically...
> > 
> > 
> I thinks it was a terrific idea .
> simon j
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