Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, if the pictures are even half as "visual" as what you wrote below, it's going to be a classic essay. Cheers Douglas Lottermoser George wrote: > Wonderful first step into the project. I highly recommend that read > PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon. I have no doubt that it will > inspire you explore your subject deeper than you're dreaming even now. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Bill Clough wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually fail. > Make backups or lose your work. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >