Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm with Jim on one and three for the Great Meadows shots - for precisely the same reasons. No. 2 is nice, but flowers do get to be, well, flowers...;-) And of the sailing group, I'll take the second - the feet - it speaks to me. On 8/15/06 2:02 PM, "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote: > Hi Richard: > > I like the first and third of the Great Meadows shots. The first for the > family feeling and the third for the breadth of the view. > > Of the Vineyard Sound photos, I like the "high Seas" feeling I get from > the first. > > Jim > > > Richard S. Taylor wrote: > >> Late-July and early-August were cruel in New England this year. We >> suffered almost four weeks of continuous high heat and unbearable >> humidity. It made us all a bit cranky. >> >> Late last week, though, New England came through with the kind of >> weather that makes us all mystified at why anyone would live anywhere >> else. The temperature settled into the high-70s, the humidity stayed >> low and the air was clear as crystal. In a month or so, these >> conditions will come with a sharp bite in the air that signals the >> beginning of Fall, but there was none of that last week. We had five >> beautiful, languid summer days in a row and couldn't believe our luck. >> >> These were taken in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in >> Concord MA last Friday. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/R0010734_web >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/R0010738_web >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/great_meadows_pano_5_web >> >> The wind was honking on Vineyard Sound and the chop running 3-4 feet on >> Sunday. I went sailing with friends on their 23 footer: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010763_web >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010792_web >> >> Power boaters like to pound through heavy chop. This guy hit a wave at >> about 20 knots and just about buried himself in water. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010811_crop2_web >> >> This is a tight (about 50%) crop from the original 28mm equivalent image >> and there's some image motion here despite it having been shot at about >> 1/750th. >> >> All Ricoh GR Digital. Program Mode. SNAP focus. >> >> The more I use this camera, the more I'm convinced it is the proper >> digital analog of the earliest Leicas. With its small size, small >> sensor, and excellent optics, it's the kind of digital camera Leica >> should have produced first. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information