Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] My thanks
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Nov 24 17:33:55 2005

Some powerful images, Dave - I particularly like the two of the Diazes.
You're right - this really does give us something to think about on
Thanksgiving.


On 11/24/05 5:40 PM, "David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote:

> Luggers,
> 
> I have a great deal to be thankful for after spending over a week down
> in Mississippi doing Hurricane Katrina relief work. I've uploaded a
> handful of shots to the LUG gallery to share with you all. It was
> extremely hard work with lots of work on temporary housing, work in
> the donation distribution center, and "mucking" which is stripping a
> house down to the studs after the flooding.
> 
> I met an amazing group of people, both local folks and volunteers from
> all over the country. I took an Olympus E300 just to make all the
> large sensor nerds mad, and because its a great camera. I wish I had
> taken more photos but I was working so hard and was so tired I found
> that the camera stayed in the bag more than usual. At any rate here
> are a few I selected from around 100 or so shots.
> 
> The war-like scenes are from Biloxi which is simply devastated - the
> people shots are from the D'Iberville P.O.D. (Point of Distribution)
> on "food day" where everyone comes to receive donated food, and
> finally there are a couple shots from some work I did for an elderly
> couple, The Diaz's,  "mucking" their home which is stripping it down
> to the studs after it flooded.
> 
> Comments are welcome but I also hope everyone will take a moment to be
> thankful they are sitting in their warm homes this Thanksgiving.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album183
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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