Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, A lovely picture--the dramatic sky, the lone tree--that is exactly how I imagine the prairie. The image would have benefitted from some lightening of the bottom part, but then again, perhaps Photo.Net has darkened it automatically--it seems to do that to the pictures I upload there. Nathan Don Dory wrote: > In July I spent some time on the Tall grass Prairie Preserve in the > Flint Hills south of Kansas City. This is probably the largest expanse > of virgin tallgrass prairie left in North America. As a note, there are > far larger tracts of short grass land in Texas and in Wyoming. > > This land still is very much as it always was; the major difference is > that cows eat a slightly different mix of plants than buffalo or > antelope so the mix of grasses is a little different. > > Anyway, this group of negatives has been very resistant to giving up the > image that I saw. It has taken me two weeks to come up with this image > which is still a work in progress. But, it is the best so far and I am > doing an image a week so... > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1704576&size=lg > > Comments always welcome and you PS experts especially desired. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html