[Leica] First Day of summer pix new Summer LUG Gallery

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

If it was daylight savings time, then you were closer to the Solstice than
you thought, by your watch.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> The picture was taken the first day of summer June 20th, 2006  12:54:51 PM
> Part of the definition of the summer solstice is the sun is directly over
> head at noon. And this is 54 minutes later.
> So the sun is about as directly over head as it can be. And you can see the
> tiny shadows right underneath them to indicate that.
> Thanks for looking!
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
>
> > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:49:03 -0700
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] First Day of summer pix new Summer LUG Gallery
> >
> > Love the two horse pictures. Great lighting, but I'm having trouble
> > figuring it out. Was the sun close to overhead and a bit toward the
> > far side of the animals?
> >
> > Herb
> >
> >
> >> First Day of summer pix new Summer Gallery
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/summer/
> >> 8 shots to start with. Only 1 will stay.
> >> All taken June 20th on different years, 2006, 7, and 10.
> >>
> >> The horses taken Jun 20 2006 as I made my way from Portland to here, NY
> to
> >> move here. I hated the green made them black and white. A romantized
> >> interpatation but I'm hoping its also a bit elegant or has some other
> >> redeeming value. Taken with a 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 Nikor at 200 with
> a
> >> crop factor of 1.5 so its 300mm. But cropped a good 25% so its maybe
> 400mm.
> >> And still the foal skittish.
> >>
> >> I have a movie house project going. I make a point of getting as many as
> >> possible when I go cross country before they all disappear. Perhaps they
> >> wont disappear!?!?  I made it to Evanston WY by the middle of the
> afternoon
> >> and got this fa?ade of their Strand theater. Playing  Jack Black 7 & 9
> Nacho
> >> Libra. I love the typography. This shot I'm really thinking is working.
> >> Perhaps I should have the movie houses in their own gallery but I think
> I
> >> have too many galleries already.
> >>
> >> Happy first day of summer!
> >>
> >> At noon the sun was directly overhead.
> >> If you can see your shadow then we get another two weeks of Spring.
> >> Woof!
> >> I'm loaded on pain meds. Had a super bad Sciatic attack today. If a
> slipped
> >> disk hurts more than this than I'll eat it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - - from my iRabs.
> >> Mark Rabiner
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Herbert Kanner
> > kanner at acm.org
> > 650-326-8204
> >
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Sonny
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