Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison, You left a day too soon. Saturday was a gorgeous day in the mountains. Classic carolina blue sky. Little haze on the mountains. Short sleeve weather. I was about 40 miles northeast of Asheville and would have been running around shooting, but we are moving my mother in law down to 70 miles east of Charlotte, so I spent the day in her basement sorting out a lifetime accumalations and packing a load into my truck. Charlotte did stay cool and rainy until today. John Eichorn At 12:16 AM 5/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >I just got back from a trip across North Carolina...man what a weird >trip, when did they make NC a dern Yankee state??? > >I left Nashville Wednesday morning and it was sunny and very warm, could >tell Summer is starting. Got into Asheville Wednesday to scout locations >to shoot a skyline shot for the Asheville Convention and visitors >magazine we do and it was cold and rainy/foggy....was beginning to regret >not bringing any long sleeve shirts. > >Thursday AM we headed to Grandfather mountain to meet with Hugh Morton >and look over his photos for possible use in the North Carolina Travel >Guide we produce for the state of NC. Was a very slow drive as we tried >to drive the Blue Ridge parkway...so foggy we could only see a few feet >in front of the car...finally got off the parkway and had slightly better >luck on the highways. After looking over Mr. Morton's stock we headed >south to Charlotte...drove through snow in Blowing Rock!!!! SNOW in the >next to last day of April in a southern state!!! Was REALLY regretting >not bringing any long sleeve shirts. > >Thursday evening pulled into Charlotte to shoot the Carolina Panthers NFL >spring practice and get photos of the new guys for the next issue of >"Panther Pride" a magazine we do for the Panthers. > >Friday on the way to the practice fields we stop at K Mart and get some >long sleeve shirts, smart move on our parts as it was about 50 degrees >with at least 30 mph winds, and some rain. My blasted Canon F1 crapped >out on me (actually crapped out at the last game last year and I forgot >about it, seldom use this lens/camera and I forgot it had a problem...oh >well it has given me 10 years of service with no stoppage even after >being dropped so hard it bent the advance lever so bad it was not usable, >6 years ago). Fortunately I had adapted my ancient 600 to an EOS mount, >Donal thank Helmut for making that thing a "T" mount!!! > >So we shot the morning practice then drove up to the Lowe's Motor >Speedway (formerly the Charlotte Motor Speedway) to get a shot of the new >sign out front for the NASCAR magazine we do...no such sign to be seen. >Guess the millions Lowe's spent was not enough for a sign. ;) Did get a >shot of the new interstate signs "Lowe's Motor Speedway exit 49". > >Went back to the Practice fields and shot the afternoon practice then we >drove back to Nashville. Left Charlotte at 3:30pm CDT got home at 9:50pm >CDT We were humming!! I think I averaged 70mph between Asheville and >Knoxville through the mountains. If you have ever driven this stretch of >highway you know what a feat this was. Mark, JCI's vice president of >editorial, and my traveling companion on this trip was white knuckling >the "oh shit" bar the whole way... > >Oh well I ended up shooting only 11 rolls of film, got all I needed for >the Panthers magazine but not much else. Found out the two angles of >Asheville are not really what we were hoping for and saw some nice stuff >from Mr Morton's files. If any of ya'll know of any neat shots of the >Asheville skyline putting it in a Mountain setting let me know. > >Sorry to all you NC Luggers, was hoping that I'd have time to drink a >beer or two, but we were very busy this trip. Hopefully later when I am >working on the Panthers mag and only on that mag I can meet up with some >of ya'll then. > > >Best regards, >Harrison McClary >email: harrison@mcclary.net >http://www.mcclary.net >preview my book: http://www.volmania.com > > >