Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi guys, and thanks. A couple of weeks earlier, and I would have taken color. I actually did take a Rollei along with me loaded with color ... but this is the tail end of autumn at these latitutes. These colors are faded out brown and bleached yellow. Another time, another place. Now ... what am I going to do with that color film in my Rollei? I'll shoot it up and give a a glance a grey, drabness ... in color :-) Best, Daniel On 10/31/05, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote: > I think I agree with Doug. > > One of the things you can always count on here is that if you shoot > B&W someone will swear it should be color, and if you shoot color > they'll insist on B&W;^) > > Thanks for the pictures. > > Ric Carter > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies > > On Oct 31, 2005, at 3:00 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > > > Some very nice shots Daniel, though I can't help wondering what > > some of them would have looked like in colour,e.g. the autumn > > leaves on a stone. > > Douglas > > > > Daniel Ridings wrote: > > > > > >> A quiet week, autumn is here. I missed most of the colors when I was > >> away, but there are still phases. > >> > >> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43.html > >> > >> Ewa and I take our week-end walks. On Saturday we went along a five > >> mile trail in Sandsj?backa and on Sunday we went on another one (felt > >> like 5 miles straight up, but since we came out at the same place, it > >> must have come down somewhere). > >> > >> Sandsj?backa is walking distance from where we live. There's a word I > >> don't know how to translate: kulturlandskap (culture-landscape, > >> literally). It implies that nature has not just taken its course, but > >> you can see signs of human existence; not necessarily building > >> remains, but even open landscape (signs of cultivation) and the like. > >> > >> Sandsj?backa is a mixture of large expanses of open heather (grazing > >> land), forests and lakes. I was away when the heather was in bloom. > >> Now I just get the sun in my eyes. > >> > >> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43alt1.html > >> > >> The land is public, and it is now a nature preserve. But before it > >> became a park, centuries before, the grazing rights had been assigned > >> to farms in the vicinity. These rights cannot be revoked (unless you > >> don't use them and the open landscape starts to revert to brush). > >> Some > >> of the farms are quite far away and modern expansion cuts them off > >> > >>> from the pastures. But they still use the area. > >>> > >> > >> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/43alt2.html > >> > >> I must be getting old ... no action ... > >> > >> Best, > >> Daniel > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >