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Subject: Re: [Leica] Don's PAW 32 Clouds on virgin prairie
From: Nathan Wajsman <n.wajsman@chello.nl>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:49:30 +0200
References: <000001c369e1$a6273010$6401a8c0@dorysrusp4>

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
>
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