Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The first 3 are absolutely stunning with a fantastic stopping power. Hard to choose between the first and the 3d: they're bot top class IMO. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 10-jul-06, om 03:10 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: > Welcome back to the July 4th celebrations in Atlanta. This year > you will > actually see real runners as opposed to the last 50,000 folk who > treat this > as a social event. All the images were taken at about the halfway > point on > "cardiac hill" named as much for the long grade as the fact that > one of the > best hospitals for heart ailments is just uphill. So, this is an > image of a > youngster with some energy left after 3 klicks: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewaterjump > > This next image was taken a couple of minutes later with the sun a bit > higher and I had moved downhill a touch to catch the sun between the > buildings and trees. What you are seeing is water from a mist > machine not > grain: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreeflagmist > > Some folk were in real need of a little cool water by this time in > the race: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreereallytired > > These folk are the reason I shoot from this location. Most of the > time they > are really entertaining; I don't know how much encouragement they > provide to > the runners: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreefurbus > > Last, the promised actual runners. These women were probably ten > minutes > behind the front running Kenyans but were still making a pretty > good clip up > the hill. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewoman20 > > Enjoy, C & C, or tell me that they are boring and meet the unoriginal, > uninspired, technically crappy. :) > > Don > don.dory@gmail.colm > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >