Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From scantily clad lovely acrobats to right to discourses on education... Only on the LUG! Ya gotta love it... :-) Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com ________________________________ From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 2:26:53 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Tribal Cirque dancers and acrobats My thanks to the folks who looked at the photos. The thread's veered off into the state of education now! Cheers Geoff *Australia, paying for the world's carbon sins, one tonne at a time**.* ** *NO ARCHIVE* On 18 July 2011 21:05, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > I encountered these talented folks performing at a local shopping centre. > They are from Aerial Angels agency based on our Gold Coast. > They were very pleased when I returned the next day with a pile of prints > for them. I got to shoot their show that day from inside their performance > area. Cool! > > Some talented, fun, vibrant dancers and enormously fit and skilled > acrobats. The star of the show was Shamara who performed on a hoop and > suspended by bolts of cloth (silks). Absolutely remarkable flexibility, > strength and grace, constantly in motion and suspended only by the friction > of the wrapped cloth for much of the shows. > M9 , 50 and a 75, largely 1000 ISO. Not so easy with manual focus and wider > apertures! > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/tc > > Cheers > Geoff > > *Australia, paying for the world's carbon sins, one tonne at a time**.* > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information