RE: [Leica] blue-sky daydream

["Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>]

Bill,

I agree with you completely. A sample of his images can be seen at his web
site http://www.jessealexander.com/index.html	
I love to watch vintage racing and usually use 2 Nikon bodies loaded with E6
film and a 180 and 300 mounted. Next weekend I am going to try M6 and TriX.
There are a couple of places at Mosport where you can still get fairly close
to the track, plus sometimes I think the shots which are most important to
me are taken in the pits.

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill O'Connell [SMTP:woc2@earthlink.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 24, 1999 12:25 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] blue-sky daydream
> 
> Spend the time with Jesse Alexander to learn how to do auto racing in b/w.
> He shot B/W with Leicas of races.  I have a few of his prints and, in
> fact,
> he was the motivation in getting the M6.  Course, as was pointed out, now
> you can't get as close as you could in those days when you could actually
> stand at the side of the track.
> I last saw him in Monterey for the big Porsche party last August.  He
> commented on the camera (my M6 - see Mark, I don't always have a Nikon
> with
> me at the track).  Due to age and the resulting factors, he has moved to a
> Contax G.  Noted that he liked it, it did much for him, but it wasn't a
> Leica.
> Porsche used one of his pictures of  the Porsche Pits at Le Mans as their
> 50th anniversary print ad last year.  A fitting tribute IMHO.
> Bill