Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks Rei... your comments are interesting, I know little about the bridge but I was staying right there, with friends, for a few days safari from Arizona...used the M7 Noct at f1 and Trix with auto exposure setting.....so don't know the speed...but was plenty fast... note the trucks are now all on the upper layer roadway...Steve > very nice, i love the look of the towers when they turn on the > interior lights. makes you glad they did not clad the exterior > with rock as was originally planned in the 20's. > > they're doing work on the joisey tower and it's all > covered with scaffolding and such. > > i've commuted on the GWB for the better part of 10 years and > i've never figured out when they light it and when they don't. > anyone care to offer the simple explanation? > > now that i have some spare time on my hands, i think i'll try to > photograph the bridge. i read a book to my kids called "the little > lighthouse and the great grey bridge" which says there's a lighthouse > underneath the NY-side tower. the afterward of the book says > the lighthouse was fitted with a new lens in 2002, so i guess it's not > fiction, but i've never seen it, nor even heard of it. maybe time > for a little photographic safari. > > -rei > > > From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> > > > > George Washington Bridge...seen from Manhattan... > > > > http://www.kididdoc.com/index.htm/paw2002/44.jpg > > > > index http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/folder-2397.html > > > > > > M7 Noctilux f1 TriX 400 > > > > thank you for looking, and for your suggestions and comments.... > > > > Steve > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html