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Subject: [Leica] armed america -- still or again, my favorite so far
From: jwlee01 at gmail.com (John Lee)
Date: Mon May 1 08:05:25 2006
References: <86070F417851ED468663EC5459FC8A0501D775@EXCHANGE.asc.local>

Kyle,
What Mossberg? Looks like a SKS.
-- John

On 4/30/06, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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