Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Howard! I loved seeing your 26 year old photos of the same scene - and I thought mine w!ere old! Mine qualify as archival when I am uploading them to stock. but your's would be truly historical. I hope you are scanning and saving them somewhere permanent - like an historical vault somewhere! They are truly of historical value. Those photos will never come again Tina On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > I loved this composition, Tina. This sure brought back memories! I visited > the Krak on a two-week car trip through Syria, Jordan, and Israel in 1979 > while I was stationed in Adana, Turkey, with the Air Force. Syria was only > a few hours' drive from Incirlik Air Base and was a favorite weekend > destination, especially the great covered souk in the city of Aleppo. > Favorite accommodation there: the Hotel Baron, favored also by a minor > British historical figure of 100 years ago, one T. E. Lawrence. Strange to > think that there was a time within recent decades when active-duty American > military personnel could drive up to the Syrian border on vacation and gain > entry. Happier times indeed. I'll post a few views of Aleppo tonight. > > A few photos of the Krak, 26 years before your view: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Krak/ > > Nikon, Kodachrome, Nikon Super Coolscan 5000. Comparing your shot and > mine, I'm struck by how superior technically the image from even > 10-year-old, less than FF digital technology is. > > ?howard > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > PESO: > > > > The view from a medieval crusaders' castle in Syria: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/154567951 > > > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > > > Tina > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com