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Subject: [Leica] Winter
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon Nov 14 08:55:14 2005
References: <436BD922.5080806@hemenway.com> <a2f8f4470511042252l1c0cb15dl8bfbb65539a7e818@mail.gmail.com> <4370AEAA.9020303@hemenway.com> <p06230906bf968501660c@[131.142.12.152]> <4375261A.1080207@hemenway.com> <p06230919bf9b1c11ec62@[131.142.12.152]> <4375F1A3.1050401@hemenway.com>

COOL!!

:^)

Ric Carter



On Nov 12, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Thanks, Richard:
>
> I was thinking of January with the 11x14 but I have to watch out for
> frostbite... I got it a couple of years ago when out in zero weather
> with the 11x14, and it comes back to visit my hands every winter.
>
> Have you been up to Nubble in southeast Maine? This one was taken  
> there last winter: http://www.hemenway.com/pages/ 
> NubbleIslandWinter.htm
>
> Try my spot there! :-)
>
> Jim
>
>
> Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>
>> Jim - Nobska is a a great subject.  I like #2 the best.*  It shows  
>> more of the house and the pattern of the fences is more  
>> interesting. It sounds like you ran into some typical Cape fall  
>> weather. Late-October and early-November can be beautiful, but it  
>> can also be horrid, as you saw.  That's why boats tend to be  
>> pulled pretty early in the Fall.  You never really know for sure  
>> when the weather is going to shut down.
>> You might try again with the big camera in January.  Some of those  
>> cold, crisp days are also very sunny and calm.
>> *Of course, you stood just about where I did when I took my  
>> pictures. I wonder if that has anything to do with my  
>> preference?  ;-))
>>> Richard:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the kind words about my photo. Boston Light is about 2  
>>> miles
>>> from where I was standing and the distant lighthouse, The Graves is
>>> almost 3.5 miles.
>>>
>>> After seeing your photos from Nobska a few weeks ago, I decided  
>>> drive
>>> down there to try some with the 11x14 last Thursday.
>>>
>>> The sun was in and out, the winds were blowing hard, gusts to 40  
>>> mph and
>>> there was a mist of dried salt spray in the air.  So... I left  
>>> the 11x14
>>> in the car and took these quickly with the tiny cameras and then
>>> hightailed it out of there.
>>>
>>> http://www.hemenway.com/Nobska/
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a terrific shot of Graves and Boston Lights.  That's one  
>>>> nasty rock strewn run of water between the two and not something  
>>>> I'd like to run if the two lighthouses were really as close at  
>>>> they look in this photo.
>>>>
>>>> Also really liked the dramatic IR foliage shots.  It's always  
>>>> interesting to see someone else's view of territory I know so well.
>>>>
>>>>> A little larger:
>>>>> http://www.hemenway.com/Takumar1000/images/05-Takumar1000-200.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>
>
>
>
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