[Leica] Photos from the Bethlehem Steel Works

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

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Subject: [Leica] Photos from the Bethlehem Steel Works


> Spent today shooting with a group of people at the abandoned Bethlehem
> Steel Works, in Bethlehem, PA. Not my usual kind of thing, but fascinating
> and challenging. All wide photos shot with the Olympus E-330 and the 11-22 
>  > f 2.8/3.5 lens. Long stuff shot with the Olympus E-1 and the 35-100 f 2
> (70-100 35 equiv.) <<<<

> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album370<<<

Hi B. D.,
Very interesting, spooky, emotional and magical all rolled into one. There's 
always something eerie about old factories shut down for many years, they 
kind of draw you in looking for what made them tick in production.

At times I find them dis-quieting in their silence and yet want to stay to 
look & look & look again, simply because they draw you in with a strange 
kind of light and form.

Well done, I don't suppose you could get a shot at it on your own with one 
of the custodians as a guide?  Being alone eliminates the distractions of 
voice and movements of others, particularly when it's just at a moment you 
have this great visual lined up and some one breaks in with... "ok we've got 
to move on." Aaaaaakkkkkkkkkk kill! ;-)

Very nice series and moody as it should be. Good on you.

ted