[Leica] (SPAM: ?) Re: Santa and Sleigh Made of Colored Lights

Christopher Crawford chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com
Mon Nov 28 06:44:51 PST 2016


Thanks, Douglas. In the US, the Christmas season traditionally begins the
day after our Thanksgiving holiday, which was November 24 this year. MANY
retailers, however, had put up Christmas decorations and begun playing
Christmas music in October. :(



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On 11/28/16, 7:20 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

>The second and eight minutes later one for me Chris, as the cars are
>visible 
>in it and give a more powerful sense of scale.
>Of course, it's a tragedy that Christmas decorations appear in November.
>In 
>Ireland in the past, nothing Christmassy appeared until the 8th of
>December.
>
>Douglas
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
>To: <lug at leica-users.org>; <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 1:00 AM
>Subject: [Leica] Santa and Sleigh Made of Colored Lights
>
>
>Originally built in the late 1930s to adorn the side of a downtown
>department store, this 150 foot long Santa and Sleigh was lost after the
>store closed around 1970 and was rediscovered rotting away in a warehouse
>a
>decade later. My grandfather, John Westerfield, was one of the local
>electricians who donated his time to restore it with modern electrical
>components in the early 80s. Since then, it has been displayed on the side
>of one of Fort Wayne¹s tall buildings every year.
>
>I made two photos of it last night, just 8 minutes apart, but greatly
>different in light, as the day was fading away fast.
>
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>-- 
>Chris Crawford
>Fine Art Photography
>Fort Wayne, Indiana
>260-437-8990
>
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>
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