Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Graham, Thanks for the reply and know just what you mean. I live in the mountains of western New Jersey and there is very little to shoot around here. :-) I must try a lot harder on my days off in future. A friend returning from the U.K. recently stated that he could not see how to take a bad picture there, to which I commented, "unless you are English". Another English Leica photographer I know calls this effect "habituation". Really like this last picture of yours too. The barge is in just the right spot and the foreground gives it context and has those lovely, rich textures of grasses and trees. What do you pay for clouds per hour? :-) I only know a few aqueducts. There is one on I believe the A3400 going up towards Birmingham and just above Henley-in-Arden which looks just like a rail bridge over the road except that there is a pub on the right on the canal with a nautical name to tip you off. Never seen a narrowboat on it, but will wager a few tourists have been shocked to see this! Was there last month for the annual Morgan gathering which was held in Oswestry this year. One of the activities was a dinner over the Telford Aqueduct near Llangollen. That thing is nearly 200 years old and is very, very high. There were lots of people there with mini-digicams and cardboard cameras and I was barely able to grab this shot which attracted a little interest on the Leica Forum. My amateur efforts lack the care and large format look of yours however. Must not have the patience. <http://gallery.leica-users.org/album24/LUG6> M7, 28 ASPH, Royal Supra 200 Professional. I can mainly only take pictures on holiday, so my snaps are important to me. Please keep posting all your lovely English "eye candy" Really enjoyed the fields and distant church spire you posted earlier today. Tough choice, but I think I liked the first shot best. Regards, William At 06:55 PM 07/29/2004 +0100, you wrote: >From: "William G. Lamb, III" <lambroving@worldnet.att.net> > >Subject: Re: [Leica] Grafton Regis Northamptonshire #3 > > > > Graham, > > > <snip> > > but failed to realize how much lovely countryside you > > have there. > >Don't feel bad William :-) I am Northamptonshire born and bred but I only >found out how lovely this area is a couple of years back when another >Lugger, Colin Vozeh, told me to shoot 'local' in response to a comment I >made about having nothing to shoot. > > >You must be right because narrowboats do not come along > >that frequently, unless you have the patience of Job, which I > >don't. > >Yesterday I was along the canal where there is an aqueduct to take the canal >across a river. No matter how many times I see a barge up in the air they >just don't look right. I have taken similar shots of barges going over the >aqueduct but I thought I would take another. I sat by the river on a hot >steamy day and waited...and waited..... and waited...... Nearly one hour >later I heard the engine of an approaching barge. During the wait I had been >sitting on the sun baked mud of the riverbank and my backside and legs had >been quietly going numb. As I leapt up in response to the sound of the >oncoming barge I very nearly went headlong into the river complete with >Leica as I struggled to make my legs work. Fortunately I stayed dry and took >this shot: >http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/Leica/Cosgrove_01.htm > >Thanks for looking. > >--Graham >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information