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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Oct 2 11:59:56 2005
References: <9b678e0510020730l1d2a9d6dmdf84523224d19add@mail.gmail.com> <4340120C.9010800@summaventures.com>

Peter
Thanks for taking a peek. I actually had to reduce the contrast quite a bit
on the rock and trees image as the contrast range is very large. Perhaps I
went a touch too far.
 Don
don.dory@gamil.com

 On 10/2/05, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote:
>
> Don,
>
> great shots. Liked them all.
>
> Don Dory wrote:
>
> > Well, after seeing daily scenes from the overpopulated British Isles
> this
> > year, I decided to see what wilderness there was in urban Atlanta. It
> seems
> > that there is quite a bit, sort of. First up is a playground buried in
> the
> > forest. These trees are probably 80-100 years old as that is when they
> > stopped lumbar operations in Atlanta. The trees are so small because
> bedrock
> > is about half a meter below the soil.
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/playgroundII
>
> I thought you meant literally buried, but the way you have shot it the
> trees
> (pines?) really seem to overwhelm the playground.
>
> > I liked the rock in the middle of the creek reflecting the forest
> > surrounding and enclosing.
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/rockI
>
> I really like this, but I feel that it needs something to bring out the
> contrast
> a bit more maybe? It may be that you have quite a range going from side to
> side
> of the image and that gives me the effect that is disturbing me?
>
> > Last up for this week is a creek wandering through this urban
> wilderness.
> > While the water has been slowly wearing away the bones of the earth
> history
> > has passed by with little effect on what is here. You would never know
> that
> > an entire civilization of Cherokee passed by, more than 7000 men died in
> the
> > immediate vicinty as recently as 1864, or that 150 yard uphill a
> > neighborhood of cottages and bungalows is being gentrified into
> McMansions.
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/waterfallwide
>
> You wouldn't!
>
> thanks for posting them,
>
> Peter Dzwig
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness)