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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Mon Oct 3 07:49:36 2005
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Don - I like the first and third a lot.  In the second one I can't 
really tell what I'm looking at.  Is that a jagged piece of rock 
jutting through the trunk of a tree?  Is the whole image a reflection?

Thanks.


>Well, after seeing daily scenes from the overpopulated British Isles this
>year, I decided to see what wilderness there was in urban Atlanta. It seems
>that there is quite a bit, sort of. First up is a playground buried in the
>forest. These trees are probably 80-100 years old as that is when they
>stopped lumbar operations in Atlanta. The trees are so small because bedrock
>is about half a meter below the soil.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/playgroundII
>  I liked the rock in the middle of the creek reflecting the forest
>surrounding and enclosing.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/rockI
>  Last up for this week is a creek wandering through this urban wilderness.
>While the water has been slowly wearing away the bones of the earth history
>has passed by with little effect on what is here. You would never know that
>an entire civilization of Cherokee passed by, more than 7000 men died in the
>immediate vicinty as recently as 1864, or that 150 yard uphill a
>neighborhood of cottages and bungalows is being gentrified into McMansions.
>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/waterfallwide
>  Many thanks to Graham for getting me into a different surrounding than
>normal.
>  Enjoy, comment, shoot more pictures.
>  Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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