[Leica] Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I really like the near monochrome look.

The mist stuff is also fine.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies



On Jul 9, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Don Dory wrote:

> Welcome back to the July 4th celebrations in Atlanta.  This year  
> you will
> actually see real runners as opposed to the last 50,000 folk who  
> treat this
> as a social event.  All the images were taken at about the halfway  
> point on
> "cardiac hill" named as much for the long grade as the fact that  
> one of the
> best hospitals for heart ailments is just uphill.  So, this is an  
> image of a
> youngster with some energy left after 3 klicks:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewaterjump
>
> This next image was taken a couple of minutes later with the sun a bit
> higher and I had moved downhill a touch to catch the sun between the
> buildings and trees.  What you are seeing is water from a mist  
> machine not
> grain:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreeflagmist
>
> Some folk were in real need of a little cool water by this time in  
> the race:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreereallytired
>
> These folk are the reason I shoot from this location.  Most of the  
> time they
> are really entertaining; I don't know how much encouragement they  
> provide to
> the runners:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreefurbus
>
> Last, the promised actual runners.  These women were probably ten  
> minutes
> behind the front running Kenyans but were still making a pretty  
> good clip up
> the hill.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewoman20
>
> Enjoy, C & C, or tell me that they are boring and meet the unoriginal,
> uninspired, technically crappy. :)
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.colm
>
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