Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] A good week...and a PAW...
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Jul 31 12:23:53 2005
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20050731143330.01e29950@imap.duke.edu>

On Jul 31, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Aaron Sandler wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> After several painfully busy weeks/months, I defended my PhD  
> dissertation on Wednesday.  It went well, I passed, and I'm _very_  
> glad to have it behind me.  :)
> (The before shot, taken by my wife using my M6TTL, is at the top of  
> my main page: http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/ )
>
> As part of the celebrations, I spent Thursday night doing two  
> things that I feel like I've done very little of recently: 1) I got  
> outside, and 2) I took some pix.  I could feel myself relaxing as I  
> rotated the only-slightly-stiff focusing ring on my summitar  
> collapsible, squeezed the release on my M6TTL, and stroked the film  
> advance.  Nice therapy.
>
> My PAW this week is from that outing...I caught up with a group of  
> hula hoopers I have photographed before, only this time one of them  
> was doing something different...I'm having trouble editing down to  
> one, so I'm showing two photos, taken a few moments apart:
>
> http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/PAW/2005_30/index.html
>
> I'm curious what folks think...preferences between the two?  Both?   
> Neither?  All points of view welcome.
>
> Hope all are well,
> Aaron

congratulations Doctor...   your wife got a wonderfull shot of you...  
ten feet tall...

of your two images I like the first as it shows the woman's face and  
the flowers on the tree better....my best wishes to you. Steve

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