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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - Outstanding Montana Fire Shot
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:42:10 -0400

"Mother! Mother!?" cried Bambi.

"She's dead!" responded a little child's voice from the back of the theater.

(Honest to God. I am not making that up.)

And that is a pretty amazing fire shot - assuming that it wasn't done with
Photoshop in the Disney studios.:-)

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Coan
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:47 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] OT - Outstanding Montana Fire Shot
>
>
> I received the picture at the link below in my email this evening, by
> virtue of being a member of another mailing list that has nothing to do
> with photography.  I think this picture is so good that some of you
> might want to see it, so I uploaded it and am posting the link below.
>
> I would enjoy reading your comments, either privately or to the list.  I
> think this picture is outstanding.  What do you think?
>
> Here is the text that accompanied the picture:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:41 PM
> > Subject: Fw: Check this out
>
> > > >This picture was taken in Bitteroot National Forest in Montana on
> > > >> August 6, 2000.  The photographer, John McColgan, is a
> fire behavior
> > > >> analyst
> > > >> from Fairbanks, Alaska.  He took the picture with a digital camera.
> > > >> Because
> > > >> he was working at the time he took the picture, he cannot
> profit from
> > it;
> > > >> however, the picture is a once-in-a-lifetime shot and should be
> shared
> > > >>
>
> And, here is the link:
>
> http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/falothsjoj/images/montanafire.jpg
>
> John
>

Replies: Reply from John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu> (Re: [Leica] OT - Outstanding Montana Fire Shot)
Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] OT - Outstanding Montana Fire Shot)