Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>>>> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information