Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]still or again, anyway, i'm on this project. i had a bit of a sense of ... well, _sadness_ even that i hadn't shot with my leicas in a long time, and i own a bunch of ultra wide lenses. just looking through the viewfinder mad me think back to the time when i actually felt fetishistic about my camera, and then all of the great tonal gradiations i'd get out of t-max. i was up till late in the night digging through my camera bag re-experiencing all the dings. anyway. andrew and elanor with their mossberg 12 gauge and their ruger p90. http://www.armedamerica.org/andrew-el/andrew-el.jpg i really like this one, despite it being pretty much useless for my book as planned due to its orientation and color. i'm not sure how worried i am by the wide angle distortion of some of the vertical lines. maybe i need some perspective control lenses, or maybe i just need to figure out when it's okay to have a unique perspective (so to speak). i'm planning my first road trip for a weekend this month or next, through delaware, baltimore, to out nation's capitol (where legal gun ownership is next to impossible but that still seems to have an awful lot of guns) and then back to PA by a route yet to be determined. if you know anybody between here and there you think might want to participate, please drop me a note. keep pushing that shutter button. kc