Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, I like cheerleading comments like yours. :) Again, thank you for taking the time to comment on all the images posted on the LUG. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 7/10/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > > The first 3 are absolutely stunning with a fantastic stopping power. > Hard to choose between the first and the 3d: they're bot top class IMO. > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > > > Op 10-jul-06, om 03:10 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >