Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard: No, I don't know them. I just met them when I followed the rabbits to territory in the park. There were two couples. The kid's parents live here. He's mainland Chinese, she's from Taiwan. The mother's sister was visiting with her husband. I asked permission to take pics of the kid, and they said yes. I already sent them Jpegs, and they loved them. I'll probably offer a print or two as well. I am very shy of taking pictures of kids these days, for obvious reasons, but this kid and the rabbits was just too good to pass up. The adults were speaking Chinese with an occasional English word thrown in. Somehow, I felt OK asking them. They were really nice people. As for the rabbits, they are former pets that were let loose in the park. They live in dens in some rocks that were piled up as a retaining wall. There are all sorts of eco-PC signs urging us not to feed them, but everyone does anyway. They seemed very fond of bok choy. :-) --Peter At 11:44 PM 9/11/2005 -0700, Richard wrote: >Ahh.... rabbits. So cute! Great pics. Do you know the woman and her kid? I >bet she would love to have prints. > >And you have Ranch 99s up there too! > >At 02:38 AM 9/11/2005, Peter Klein wrote: > > > >I decided to take my Zorki 4 out for a walk this weekend. Quirky, klunky > >camera, kind of hard to focus when the diopter lever decides to move > >itself when it feels like it. I struggled with it for a while, took a > >bunch of pictures that I'm not very pleased with. > > > >But when I came upon this scene, mmmmm. A Summicron would have been > >objectively "better," but there's something about the quality of the 1930s > >Sonnar design that suited the subject. > > > >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/25RabbitsBoy4.jpg > >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/16RabbitBoy.jpg > >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/23BoyRabbitBlack.jpg > >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/18RabbitMom.jpg > > > >Zorki 4, 50/2 Jupiter-8, 1/60 at about f/4.5, Fuji Reala 400. > > > >--Peter