Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] DownEast
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Nov 8 05:45:41 2005
References: <436BD6D4.3060603@hemenway.com> <F88D6678-53BD-470F-A5EC-424E6ED3DC46@mindspring.com>

Thanks, Ric.

Jim

Ric Carter wrote:

> I like two of them a BUNCH: the whirlpool and the three skiffs by the  
> pier.
> 
> Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
> 
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Jim Hemenway 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.
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] DownEast)
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