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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Oct 8 05:28:07 2005
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Alastair,
Well, your wish is being granted. I went out in the rain yesterday to shoot
some waterfalls so you will be seeing more this week.
 Don
don.dory@gmail.com

 On 10/7/05, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
>
> Lovely images, its about time we had some competition to GB's
> disgusting overload of English country side ;-) Keep them coming
>
>
> On 03/10/2005, at 12:30 AM, 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 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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> Alastair
>
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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness)
In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Don's PAW Urban wilderness)
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