Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://gallery.leica-users.org/album456/Raider_1 is a nice composition with the triangle between foreground and background riders. For the Port Gamble shots I'd try to find some more surprising POV's and for the other CV Reenactment shots, I'd try to get closer to the action if possible. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 4-jul-06, om 04:57 heeft Norm Aubin het volgende geschreven: > Greetings - > > I've posted a few snap shots for your enjoyment. Back in early May > of this > year my beautiful bride and I took a drive up > to Port Gamble and Port Townsend on the Olympic peninsula - just a > long > weekend get-away and a chance to visit a > place neither of us had seen in years. > > Port Gamble is an old mill town which was founded in 1853, by Maine > businessmen Andrew Pope and William Talbot, > and was the longest continuously operating mill town in North America. > Authentically restored and operated by Pope > Resources it's a living museum - and just fun to visit - especially > if you > like Victorian style architecture like we do. > > Up by Port Townsend there is an old military Fort - Fort Warden - with > concrete emplacements and such, and at the > edge of the fort is the lighthouse Pt. Wilson, further up coast is the > lighthouse at Point-No-Point. > > Port Gamble: > > HYPERLINK http://gallery.leica-users.org/album455 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album455 > > > While visiting Port Gamble we found out that there would be a civil > war > reenactment performed by the Washington > Civil War Association, in June. We drove back over to see this, > and it was > time well spent! The folks who involve themselves > in this do so with some gusto - anyone who would spend all day in > woolen > uniforms doing this stuff for free must love it! > > Civil War Reenactment: > > HYPERLINK http://gallery.leica-users.org/album456 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album456 > > These are a few of the images I took over those two different trips > to the > place - all shot with an M6, on Kodak Portra 160, > minor P.S. fixing as needed. Enjoy them if you chose - and if it > leads you > to photographing something interesting going on > in your own backyard - share the images! > > Best of Light, > Norm > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/381 - Release Date: > 7/3/2006 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >