Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh - I think the whirlpool works just fine as is and could have been better at maybe 100 or 50 rather than 200 or higher ASA. I loved the lines of the rowing dory alongside the dock. In my frittered-away youth I desperately wanted to build a wooden boat but I had no instructor in my life and I have no experience or tradition with tools - just ask my wife! Thanks for sharing Adam On 11/4/05, Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I went to Maine with my daughter and son-in-law on Columbus Day > weekend... to his family's summer place which was a small farm in the > 1800s. > > I had planned to shoot some photos with my 11x14 at nearby Acadia Nat'l > Park, but the wind and heavy rain put an end to that idea. > > We had twelve inches of rain in two days... just 1/8th inch more and we > would have been "not responded to by FEMA". > > I shot some photos after the worst of the rain tapered down: > http://www.hemenway.com/DownEast/ > > None of the photos really convey the rain. As my daughter said, "It > doesn't look nearly as rainy as I remember it". > > Four of them are my favorites but I need to edit out some of these, > please let me know what you think. > > Jim > > > P.S. The very last photo shows a whirlpool next to a flooded road. I've > never seen one before in nature, only in a bathtub. It sounded the same > but was louder and larger, about six inches across at it's widest. When > I put a leaf into it, it popped out on the other side of the road in two > seconds... pretty fast. Unfortunately, it never occurred to me to dial > up the ISO from 200. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >