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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon Oct 3 15:56:41 2005
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Richard,
Thanks for taking a look and commenting. The rock is actually a reflection
in a still part of a creek. I may have to return with a longer lens to
emphasis more of what I wanted to convey. I used a 50 on this shot, and a 90
or 135 might work better.
 Don
don.dory@gmail.com

 On 10/3/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Don - I like the first and third a lot. In the second one I can't
> really tell what I'm looking at. Is that a jagged piece of rock
> jutting through the trunk of a tree? Is the whole image a reflection?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >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 liked the rock in the middle of the creek reflecting the forest
> >surrounding and enclosing.
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album280/rockI
> > 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
> > Many thanks to Graham for getting me into a different surrounding than
> >normal.
> > Enjoy, comment, shoot more pictures.
> > Don
> >don.dory@gmail.com
> >
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick
> Boston MA
>
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