Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aaron, indeed the picture conveys the beauty of the moment beautifuly. I like the touch of the branches and flora on the foreground. peace David On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Aaron Sandler wrote: > Happy New Year Everybody! > > I'm back from the holidays and looking forward to flipping through the > photos that folks have posted over the last couple of weeks. > > My last PAW of 2005 is the last sunrise of the year, viewed from the > Hawaiian island of Molokai as light just started to spill over onto > the dark side of Maui. It was beautiful in person...I hope the photo > conveys a little bit of the majesty: > http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/PAW/2005_52/index.html > > The book recommendation: > "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton visits various parts of the > world and views them (aesthetically) using the perspectives of various > artists and writers. I'd recommend this to any photog who likes > traveling and is interested in seeing ordinary things a little > differently. For the first few days after I read this I was looking > at everything I saw through different eyes. I ended up shooting a lot > more static landscape-type stuff over those days (like my PAW). I > don't know that the shots were all that great, but it was a good > experience for me. > > Hope all have been well. > > Best, > Aaron > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information