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Subject: [Leica] LATE-AUGUST POTPOURRI
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Tue Aug 15 11:37:29 2006
References: <C10787BC.13C88%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

Well, you looked at the one I didn't reference in my posting because 
I thought it might be boring.  Glad to hear that isn't the case.

Here's the link in case anyone else would like a peek:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/R0010803_web

Thanks for the comment.


>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.
>>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick

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