Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: GeeBee's landscapes
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Aug 18 18:09:05 2007
References: <200708181146.l7IBkIR4058154@server1.waverley.reid.org> <EE07E2DF-F5E7-44C9-B5DD-235853A14655@optonline.net>

Larry,
After a rainstorn once you were west of Topeka you could see a really long
way in the fifties.  I remember in 1958 driving west to Colorado from
Nebraska and seeing the Rockies lift off the horizon.  Then we drove another
two-three hours until we hit the foot hills.

On 8/18/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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)
>
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-- 
Don
don.dory@gmail.com

In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: GeeBee's landscapes)