Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/20

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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: scenics
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:55:58 -0500

>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

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