[Leica] IMG: Some frames from the newly acquired CL

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

> Alastair Firkin wrote:
>
>> In my day, we spoke "rock" basic "rock" like "hey don't hit me with that
>> rock!!" (2000 year old man).
>
> :-) we have quite a few names for it, depending on quality and other
> things. The granite around where I live is not the best quality. Some
> they use for cobblestones, some they crush up to gravel of various
> grades, some they use for building material and sculptures. It was an
> economic asset at one time. Remind me ... I'll go out to one of the
> quarries and take some pictures. It has been unused for over 50 years
> now, but a lot was left just they way it was and you can see how the
> "harvested" the stone. The stonecutters were highly specialized.
>
> Nice setting ... on the coast (closer to the ships).
>
>
> I'm looking at negatives of granite with just
>> that tonal quality: one tone!!!
>
> Kind of begs for color, doesn't it ... or "bad och bruna brudar" :-)
>
> (sunbathing and tanned 'girls' (literally, "brides"))

I find that that sort of colour usually helps with the comments from one
half of the population: lucky that half populates the LUG ;-) Lichen and
fungus can help, but even with bleach granite is going to be a bit
mono-tonal otherwise. I hope to post some of my "cracked" walls soon. I
bought a Barnbaum print of the marble quarries in Italy where he had gone
to town with the liquid daylight and made a remarkable image!!

Cheers