[Leica] Industrial Canyon

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

The first one is a plain simple WOW!

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Frustrated architect and painter Philippe

Le 25 f?vr. 14 ? 08:13, Jim Hemenway a ?crit :

> Dear Fellow Luggers:
>
> I haven't been active here for sometime, but I've been trying to  
> keep up with things by reading many of your posts.
>
> This photo was shot a couple of years ago in Lowell Massachusetts on  
> Ektachrome 100 with my 11x14 view camera, I showed it here at that  
> time, Fall 2012.
>
> http://www.hemenway.com/IndustrialCanyon-11x14-200072-Ekta100.png
>
> It's part of a small personal project of mine to shoot a lot of  
> photos of the locks, canals and mills in Lowell with some  
> accompanying history of what is sometimes called America's first  
> industrial city... the industry being mostly the weaving of huge  
> amounts of wool in equally huge water powered weaving mills, all  
> beginning in the early 1800s.
>
> After I shot this I began having some problems with my right hip!
>
> It has been so painful that I had to stop using the 11x14 but kept  
> shooting some digital  "scouting" photos for further use with the  
> 11x14 and my Leica R8 and Leica FishFlex when some of my skeleton  
> parts could be repaired.
>
> Finally it came to the point this past October when I could no  
> longer walk more than a few feet/meters and the following two  
> digital scouting shots are my last:
>
> This is a view of the first shot, Industrial Canyon from the other  
> end of the canal.
> http://www.hemenway.com/PawtucketCanal.jpg
>
> This is the Hamilton canal, parallel to the first.
> http://www.hemenway.com/HamiltonCanal.jpg
>
> But after lots of tests and various medications, my heart has been  
> cleared so that I can get a hip transplant tomorrow. Hopefully it  
> will be a day that I can remember with pleasure for a long time.
>
> So if you fell like it, please wish me luck (off list)... with a lot  
> of that and a successful procedure, I'll be back in a few months  
> with more of my project completed.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
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