Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Don Dory wrote: > Graham, > I love your clouds and your landscapes. I am trapped in a city > with large > bluffs surrounding a piddling river so I never see the grand > landscape. But > I grew up on the plains in Kansas and Mississippi where you could > see on a > good day 300 miles and the thunderheads coming in were glorious > with their > anvil heads forming up and the lightning strikes visible 62 > kilometers away. > > On 8/17/07, geebee <geebee@geebeephoto.com> wrote: >> >> Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : red filter : Kodak Professional BW400 CN >> >> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2007/07258.htm >> I, too, admire Graham's body of work. He has extracted serious drama out of what is basically a pastoral countryside. It can't all be the red filters. But Don, unless you were in an airplane flying over Kansas, the farthest you could see was about 15 miles, and that only when the corn pollen smog didn't pollute the air. And while I agree that the Atlanta scenery is bland, if you want to shoot dramatic landscapes you are only about 2 hours from the Blue Ridge Parkway and three hours from the Smokies. Nothing in Graham's UK looks like either of these locations, OK, perhaps the Snodonia Mountains look a bit like the Blue Ridge. Larry Z (born and corn fed in the Midwest)