Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The great lawn looking south and San Remo are my picks: I also like "Blue". I like the first because it combines the "city" with the exhibition, and gives a good flavour of the size of the "art". On 01/03/2005, at 2:35 PM, Max Weisenfeld wrote: > Here are the first pictures from the day the kids and I spent at > Christo's The Gates in Central Park. > > We went in on a weekday, and the park was fairly empty. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80432.html > > The sky was overcast. The light was a little hazy. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80480.html > > By the time we got to the Belvedere Castle in the middle of the park, > though, the sun broke through. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80441.html > > The installation was not like anything I had ever experienced before. > It was all around you. It called attention to itself, but it also > made you look at the familiar landscape of the park in a new way. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80436.html > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80434.html > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80437.html > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80431.html > > Everyone seemed to have a camera. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80439.html > > It made me think about color. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80435.html > > We're sad it's gone now. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/max3/image-80481.html > > All images scanned from negatives on my new handy-dandy Epson 3170 > Photo. This is my first attempt at scanning color at home, and at > using PS -- most snaps here have some levels and unsharp mask > tinkering. > > Comments encouraged. > > Max > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair