[Leica] supersized butts too

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

I'd like to see more from Tennessee. Malls are malls. Suburbs,
downtown, and side streets too. We've seen the appalachian side from
others over the years. I'd like to just see the undramatic side.

Thanks for these!
Daniel


On 6/12/06, Arche, Harvey <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> wrote:
> I'm in Tennessee: I shoot what I see.
> Xtol woes sorted out, here's some stuff that had been waiting to be souped.
>
> >From the mall:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/jabba
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/babycakes
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/handoff
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/shopping_pattern
>
> For a promotion at the stock car track, they brought in the 'Green Mamba', 
> a Rolls-Royce engined jet-car. Midway through the evening's races, it came 
> out and did a couple laps. This means that at the beginning of each 
> straightaway the driver hammers the throttle for 2 seconds and then coasts 
> half way around the track, because there's no way they're going to let 
> this sucker get up to speed.
> Thats not what its for.
> They have two junkers stacked in the middle of the infield, and after the 
> scheduled races, the Mamba is going to melt them down!
> So, come time, they roll the Mamba over and chain it to stakes already 
> set, chock the wheels, and let the driver climb in. He weighs about 290 
> and sits in a little cage, presumably to keep him from getting sucked into 
> the engine. Now we have high-speed portable blow torch about 3 feet in 
> diameter, ready to go at it. It takes about 6-8 minutes to reduce the 
> stacked junkers to glowing slag, and then the fire trucks, who have been 
> waiting patiently, roar over from where they were parked about 100 yards 
> away, with full lights and sirens, and hose off the rubble. Big steam 
> clouds, and everybody goes home happy. Is this a great country or what?
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/mamba
>
> GOYA & shoot,
> Arche
>
>
>
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