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Subject: [Leica] Shan State - Burma Book Project: M9+Summicron-35v4
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:23:11 +0100
References: <D3A64812-360D-4FAE-ADBC-659FC76C8B51@mac.com> <693BF849-37DC-4850-B00E-F7E08B9F447A@frozenlight.eu>

Really lots of stunning pictures. Hard to pick favourites in such a large 
and good set, but among mine were:

L1001707 (page 1)
L1001705 (page 8)
L1001427 (page 23)
L1001525 (page 40)
L1001579 (page 52)
L1001626 (page 69)
L1001660 (page 74)
L1001678 (page 80)

Cheers,
Nathan


Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/

YNWA









On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> That's very generous of you, Mitch! I have downloaded it for later perusal.
> Are you Polish BTW?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> 
> YNWA
> 
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> 
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:04 AM, mitcha at mac.com wrote:
> 
>> Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book 
>> project  of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can 
>> download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here:
>> 
>> http://bit.ly/1asgee0
>> 
>> All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I 
>> like ? this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. 
>> While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in 
>> the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much 
>> congestion, so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly 
>> found that, by having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), 
>> there is so much going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep 
>> track of it all when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because 
>> one has to see things both to the left and the right at the same, and the 
>> angle of view to the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene ? 
>> I mean not looking through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before 
>> bringing the camera up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. 
>> 
>> ?Mitch/Paris
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