[Leica] IMG: Wales

[Frank Dernie]

My eldest daughter did her PhD at the University of Wales in Bangor. She went there about 15 years ago and has never returned, settling on Anglesey, getting married and having 3 boys and buying a smallholding to add to her work as a Marine biologist.
We rarely go anywhere else for holidays both for family reasons and our love of Snowdonia, I have been fell-walking (very much not running…) there for 50 years.
OTOH I have never thought of Kodachrome as very accurate on greens, and I tend to agree with Douglas that Tina’s scans show “Kodachrome” greens not true “Welsh” greens.
Anyway, beautiful pictures of a landscape I love.

I go to South Stack if we are visiting during the bird breeding season there. One can see Ireland from there, and if not careful can end up getting an expensive “foreign” mobile phone call since the phone signal strength there from Ireland is stronger than any UK one…
cheers,
Frank D.


> On 1 May, 2015, at 01:32, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, Gerry, I'm getting old and the old eyes must be playing up! I've only been over there about fifty or sixty times in all sorts of weathers and the various shades of green I've seen there over the years don't match the slightly unearthly glow I saw in the green in Tina's photo. Where I live is sixty miles across the Irish Sea from Snowdon. I used to be able to see the summit of Snowdon from the top of Bray Head beside by old house. Strangely enough, the varying weather is very similar to, if not the exact same as, Wales!
> 
> The reasons I went to Wales so many times was because I was involved in fell running and as a result was out in the mountains there a lot, particularly in Snowdonia. I'm a life member of the FRA and I have the latest issue of their magazine "The Fellrunner" on my desk here in front of me. No unearthly looking greens in the race photos in the mag...
> 
> Anyway in the general scheme of things, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans!
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Wales
> 
> 
>> Wales is a very wet country and I have seen it like this immediately after rain ( which is very often).
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Gerry Walden
>> 0797 287 7933
>> 
>>> On 30 Apr 2015, at 15:08, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, you won't like any of the 1040 Kodachromes I just scanned of Wales.
>>> They are all very green.  Wales is the greenest country I've ever been to.
>>> I did not adjust the color other than to hit Auto in LR.
>>> 
>>> If you thought that one was too saturated, you will hate this one:
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/159909250
>>> 
>>> Also unadjusted for color saturation.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry Tina, the colours don't look natural to me. Those greens are too
>>>> saturated for Wales.
>>>> 
>>>> Douglas
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com>
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>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 7:05 PM
>>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wales
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> PESO:
>>>>> 
>>>>> While I'm editing photos from Cuba, my scanner is working on Kodachromes
>>>>> from 1993, a trip to Wales for our anniversary.  We hiked from one B&B to
>>>>> another all over the country.  It was rainy and foggy the whole time, but
>>>>> that's perfect weather for Wales.  Tom had to find places to call his
>>>>> office:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/159901968
>>>>> 
>>>>> C&C greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tina
>>>>> 
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