Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very nice serie Peter, very good shots there! Cheers Lluis El 18/07/2010, a las 17:22, Peter Cheyne escribi?: > It's been so hot and humid here this summer. Recent weekends see me > staying in, lazy, with the curtains drawn until 2 or 3 pm. By this > time my seven year old daughter near at her wits' end begs me to go > out and play. So, I rustle up a late quick lunch, grab a camera, a > lens or two, and we go out for the rest of the day. This is our too- > hot-summer weekend routine. > > Today I put her on the back of my bicycle and cycled to the river. > I brought my Canon film EOS and 400/2.8 (not an easy rig to balance > on a bicycle shopping basket) with 2x converter to photograph some > birds while she made friends with other kids cooling their legs in > the river. On my 10th shot, I caught some real beauties, you should > have seen them, but then I realized that there was no film in the > EOS body (I wanted to shoot slide instead of digi, and thought I put > film in the old EOS last night). I had my daughter's Canon S90 in > my pocket, so I took some photos of her by the river, then of a > river shrimp that some other kid's dad had fished out. As we were > about to get back on the bicycle, Maria noticed a rainbow on a > stone, cast by sparkly plastic on the cycle spoke. > > Back home for a few minutes, I replaced the heavy, long lens rig > with my M8 and 35 asph 'cron and headed out again. Where in the > world did my angel want to go, the sky's the limit? MacDonalds, of > course. One Happy Meal later and we rode to the local play-park > where we whizzed off some extra energy. > > On the way back home we saw some interesting clouds, some buddhas in > a barn, sunflowers, and a beautiful magenta-pink lily. Yes, I did > have the IR-cut filter on my M8's lens. Back home in Kagamizu > Village we saw some pretty sunset scenes with mists rising from the > forested hills. I squeezed these moments into a 23 second > slideshow, but at least a couple of photos should be removed from > the set, and I can't choose which. > > One pair, towards the end, is of a house the other side of a stream > valley, surrounded by forest hills and a sunset. I took it in > portrait and landscape aspects and can't decide which I prefer, > although the portrait version shows the stream better. > > Slideshow: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157624527736826/show/ > > Thanks for looking, > > Peter Cheyne > > (Any C&C, including which photos to drop, welcome) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information