Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David, You do have some good images there. THanks for sharing them. Thanks too for your volunteer efforts. Many folks are still in very dire straits down here even though it is no longer the lead story on the evening news. Frank Farmer Jackson, Miss. On Nov 24, 2005, at 4:40 PM, David C. Mason 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >