Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, you will have a captive audience. I go to the coast ... to remind me of the Illinois prairie. I want to see the horizon. I can sympathize with your project and really look forward to your presentation. Daniel Bill Clough wrote: > USA > TEXAS > CORPUS CHRISTI > 20 March 2006 > > HI there-- > > Instead of PAWing this year, I have another project. > > I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had a vague > idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle and the adjacent > areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce Panhandle, but >my< > Panhandle, where I grew up. It's cowboy country--a land, then, at the end > of the Dust Bowl. We still had black dusters then, and cold fronts with > sustained winds of 75 mph. When they blew through telephone lines along > the Santa Fe tracks the sound was pure Gregorian. I stayed with the same > theme for more than 15 years and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant > I would gladly spend an entire year trying to capture that area's many > moods. Its beauty isn't like that of Colorado, for instance. It doesn't > jump out at you; you have to find it. But it's there...some of it, anyway. > For the next 74 days, I hope to post one photo a day of this essay. Sadly, > most of the subjects are gone. I search for landmarks and cannot find > them. Now, they are only here. > > --Bill Clough > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/Dusty+Sunset+0070+Feb+1962.jpg.html > > > Panhandle Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/ > > Complete Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/