Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arche, I don't know how many rolls you burned, but this is a very nice harvest. You're getting very close to -if not you are capturing already- le moment d?cisif, would that be an ambition of yours. As I already said before: I really look forward to more of these postings. I think you're on to a subject that you could really make your own. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 28-jun-06, om 02:31 heeft Arche, Harvey het volgende geschreven: > Last saturday I drove up the road a piece to Clarksville, where > they have a race complex that includes a go-kart course, a mud bog, > and a 1/8 mile dragstrip, in addition to the 1/4 dirt oval that was > featuring races that night. Clarksville is the home of Ft. Campbell > and the 101st Airborne Div., and the town has grown spectacularly > since I lived in the area 7 years ago. The night I was there the > track owner annnouced that, because of a big new sponsorship deal, > the track would now be called the 'something something Propane > Speedway', and that starting next week cars would have to race with > mufflers because of the new nearby subdivisions. > > At this track they don't let anybody, not even pit crew, onto the > infield, except the officials and guys wearing serious looking > camera gear. Honest. When I asked, they said 'You're a > photographer? Sure.' The thing is, after the first hot lap of > warmups, I realized I didn't wany my gear anywhere near that track > because everything quickly gets covered with dirt, or the local red- > clay variety of it, thrown up by the cars. > > So I've got three sets of five pictures each, no running cars. > Yeah, I totally wussed. > > The Driver's meeting, starting here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/meeting1 > > Scenes from the Pit area, starting here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/pits1 > > Views of the spectators, starting here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/crowd1 > > Tech blab: M2 w/ 35 s'cron; pit pictures mostly APX 100, crowd > pictures all P3200TMX, and meeting pictures all Foma 200 in D76 > 1:2, which works OK for me (now, if I could just keep from > scratching the stuff). > Arche > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >