Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>This isn't the sort of thing that I'm generally drawn to, but I tried some >landscapes when my wife and I drove the Apache Trail from Payson to Apache >Junction (20 some miles of switch-back gravel road--no guard >rails). These three images are all of Roosevelt Dam (first constructed >1905-1911) across the Salt River. The Salt River Project, one of the >grand accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt's administration, brought >water into the southern Arizona desert, making possible the cultivation of >cotton and citrus. The sprawling ugliness of present-day Phoenix grew >directly from this humble start. I remember the old dam; this is the >'new' one (built atop the old), which was completed in 1996. One used to >drive across the dam, but the suspension bridge carries the roadway today. > >I tried to convey how utterly remote and large is this landscape, >especially on a grayish cold day. I used the Heliar 15 on an M4-P, >metered with a Pentax 1 degree sopt, on Kodak E100SV. > >I'm having a lot of trouble with Photoshop's jpeg compression. The dark >areas of these prints are really quite open. > >Dam--looking southwest > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt01.htm > >Dam--looking northwest > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt02.htm > >Bridge. > > http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt03.htm > > >Chandos - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html