[Leica] LATE-AUGUST POTPOURRI

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Hi Richard:

I like the first and third of the Great Meadows shots. The first for the 
family feeling and the third for the breadth of the view.

Of the Vineyard Sound photos, I like the "high Seas" feeling I get from 
the first.

Jim


Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> Late-July and early-August were cruel in New England this year.  We 
> suffered almost four weeks of continuous high heat and unbearable 
> humidity.  It made us all a bit cranky.
> 
> Late last week, though, New England came through with the kind of 
> weather that makes us all mystified at why anyone would live anywhere 
> else.  The temperature settled into the high-70s, the humidity stayed 
> low and the air was clear as crystal.  In a month or so, these 
> conditions will come with a sharp bite in the air that signals the 
> beginning of Fall, but there was none of that last week.  We had five 
> beautiful, languid summer days in a row and couldn't believe our luck.
> 
> These were taken in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in 
> Concord MA last Friday.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/R0010734_web
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/R0010738_web
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/great_meadows_pano_5_web
> 
> The wind was honking on Vineyard Sound and the chop running 3-4 feet on 
> Sunday.  I went sailing with friends on their 23 footer:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010763_web
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010792_web
> 
> Power boaters like to pound through heavy chop.  This guy hit a wave at 
> about 20 knots and just about buried himself in water.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010811_crop2_web
> 
> This is a tight (about 50%) crop from the original 28mm equivalent image 
> and there's some image motion here despite it having been shot at about 
> 1/750th.
> 
> All Ricoh GR Digital.  Program Mode.  SNAP focus.
> 
> The more I use this camera, the more I'm convinced it is the proper 
> digital analog of the earliest Leicas.  With its small size, small 
> sensor, and excellent optics, it's the kind of digital camera Leica 
> should have produced first.
>