Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information