Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] CLOISTERS/PEOPLE
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Oct 18 18:55:21 2005
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Richard,
There may be one in my old photo.net <http://photo.net> folder. If things
settle down a little bit on the work front I will put a couple up, but don't
hold your breath.
 Don
don.dory@gmail.com

 On 10/18/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for looking Don. Sounds we both found the same "Picture
> Spot." It would be interesting to see some of yours. Are they
> posted?
>
> I had a great afternoon there. Shot 7 rolls of film. I'll probably
> post a few more shots from my visit in a few days.
>
> >Richard,
> >It is always interesting to see how different people see the same spot.
> When
> >I was at the cloisters, I shot the bowl of flowers lit by a shaft of
> light
> >in the chapel, I shot down one of the rows of columns in the same spot
> you
> >shot http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web , and I shot a
> couple
> >playing touchy/feely at the end of that same corridor.
> > Thanks for showing.
> > Don
> >don.dory@gmail.com
> >
> > On 10/18/05, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> The Cloisters in upper Manhattan is a reproduction of a Medieval
> >> castle set on a tall bluff overlooking the Hudson. It's about
> >> 70-years old. The Metropolitan Museum of Art operates it as a museum
> >> of Medieval art. I have been trying to get people in my photos more
> >> often and used this visit to push the envelope a bit.
> >>
> >> Visitors looked at art:
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_29_0341_web
> >>
> >> Studied the castle:
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/03_23_0335_web
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/04_15_0302_web
> >>
> >> and just took in the warm late-September mid-afternoon sun.
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/06_02_0177_web
> >>
> >> These were all shot with an M7 and either a current version 50
> >> Elmarit or 35 mm Summicron ASPH on Fuji Press 400 film. The images
> >> are from professional 2 K x 3K scans converted to B&W in Photoshop
> >> with only the usual cropping and level tweaking done in connection
> >> with the conversion.
> >>
> >> Comments welcome as always.
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Dick
> >> Boston MA
> >>
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>
> Dick
>
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