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Subject: [Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors]
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:42:12 -0400
References: <65F08CD7-6EB6-417A-89E8-C102AF485B42@comcast.net> <E188C3A8-A11E-4A29-AB70-FDB099ECCD6C@embarqmail.com> <205549.36295.qm@web111802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <6434C01A-AB0B-4597-B7AF-1AD971E79B93@comcast.net> <741512.5028.qm@web111810.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <F9203C13-2239-4471-9B79-778F725CCFFB@comcast.net> <4A573BF8-51BE-468F-8F5B-0F9706FE380E@telefonica.net>

Thanks Lluis.

Regards,

Dick



On Aug 05, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> Hi Dick,
>
> If I should choose I'll probably keep this one, IMHO is more  
> interesting this one than show the narrow channel.
>
> Saludos
> Lluis
>
>
> El 05/08/2009, a las 21:53, Richard Taylor escribi?:
>
>> Well, the value of judging in these contests has always been  
>> suspect to me.  It seems to lead to conformity, IMHO.  But that  
>> said, I cropped out the rocks.  The result is here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199_crop.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/l3ltkf
>>
>> The cropped version certainly emphasizes the anticipated crash, but  
>> to my mind loses the piece of information that they are both in a  
>> very narrow channel.
>>
>> It'd be interesting to hear what others think.  Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 05, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Philip Price wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dick, I belong to a photographic society here, ( UK ) and we  
>>> have monthly competitions which are always keenly contested, our  
>>> regular club membership is 70 /80 members. I regularly enter  
>>> prints, with it must be said varying degrees of success ! Over the  
>>> years I have learnt to anticipate what the judge will like or not  
>>> like, believe me some of them can be pretty ferocious with their  
>>> comments ! I do love the drama in your shot but I know the judge  
>>> in a competition would probaly comment on those rocks.
>>>
>>> As an amateur though I listen, and then go out and do the same  
>>> thing again, after all its for my pleasure not some judge who is  
>>> definitely not on my Christmas card list !!!
>>>
>>> Happy snapping Phil.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:29:11 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>>>
>>> Well, that's interesting.  I had thought that the rocks and  
>>> distant shore added to the drama by emphasizing the narrowness of  
>>> the channel in which all this drama was occurring.
>>>
>>> Thanks for commenting.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 05, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Philip Price wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lots of drama, and movement in the shot, just a pity about the  
>>>> rocks in the bottom right forground.
>>>> Regards
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 6:56:56 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate  
>>>> Sailors
>>>>
>>>> ACK
>>>>
>>>> NICE
>>>>
>>>> ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We almost never race through Woods Hole Passage on the  
>>>>> Weekends.  The powerboat traffic is just too thick and the  
>>>>> current usually too strong..  Three Sundays ago, though, the  
>>>>> wind was too strong to race in the Bay or the Sound.  So, since  
>>>>> the current in the Hole was nearly slack at race time and the  
>>>>> boat traffic was nearly nil, we did, only to run into an  
>>>>> entirely different obstacle:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199.jpg.html
>>>>> or
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/klkd3w
>>>>>
>>>>> Ever practical, we just raced around them.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4230.jpg.html
>>>>> or
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/mycc4q
>>>>>
>>>>> D300, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> C&C fervently desired.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dick
>>>>>
>>>>>
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