Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] New BW Gallery: Fish & Chips, Long-legged Girls, Beer, Samba Music and Nosy People
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:14:44 +0100
References: <4AFD71A2.8030706@gmx.de> <444619.23644.qm@web55902.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Very probably local sheep farmers, the cattle auction was on up the road 
from Whitby - I suppose they are a very similar breed :-)

Cheers
Douglas

H. Ball Arche wrote:
> Douglas,
>  A great set for giving the living feel of a place. Question: are these 
> two guys American tourists, or natives?
> <http://tinyurl.com/yaltyom>
> Camo jacket and ball caps, they could be from Tennessee.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Cc: leicareflex at freelists.org; MUG <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; cvug 
> <cvug at cameraquest.org>; LEG <leica at freelists.org>
> Sent: Fri, November 13, 2009 8:48:02 AM
> Subject: [Leica] New BW Gallery: Fish & Chips, Long-legged Girls, Beer, 
> Samba Music and Nosy People
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just took a day off work to get some of the snaps from my recent holiday 
> in Whitby UK processed.
>
> The main subjects are as in the subject line. I suppose you could call it 
> street photography - for me, that's another way of saying shooting 
> snapshots while walking around town :-)
>
>
> With only a few exceptions, these were all shot on film (ASA 200 Colour 
> Negative film - Boots store brand and Kodak Gold) with Leica and CV lenses 
> (50/25/15/12mm), Rollei lenses (28 and 35mm) and a Zeiss Yashica T-AF 
> 3.5/35 Tessar point and shoot. The other cameras were a Rollei 3003, a 
> Minolta CLE and a Pentax P30 I picked up in a charity shop along with a 
> 1.8/50 and an absolute dog of a Centon 28-70 Zoom lens for a few pounds.
>
> All the negatives were processed and scanned to CD at a 1-hour minilab 
> just across the street from the famous Sutcliffe Gallery. I only tweaked 
> the results and converted them to BW.
>
> Be like the people on the first shot - be nosy and take a look around the 
> gallery and (hopefully) enjoy a walk around the fair town of Whitby.
>
> Comments and criticism are, as always, more than welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> The gallery starts here
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/yfqnu3a*
>
>
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