[Leica] New posts from Hoppy

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I like the graphic quality of the lady listening to her iPod the  
best. A nicely posed figure with interesting background.

Thanks.

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

On Aug 25, 2006, at 6:16 AM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have posted some new images taken on a visit to Melbourne here in
> Australia.
>
> A little while ago some experienced LUG members suggested that I  
> try some
> people photography, asking strangers for permission as a photographic
> exercise.
>
> So each person here gave their permission and those shots are with  
> either
> the Summicron 50 or my lovely new 28.
>
>
>
> Previously some people have asked for a little more detail for  
> interest, so
> there is a note here relating to each.
>
>
>
> This gentleman busking on a busy street corner claimed to have been  
> wounded
> during the Korean War. Now he's clowning for change.
>
> I'm not sure what that says. His costume is assembled from  
> multicoloured
> rags, feather boas and foil decorations, all over the Swish shirt.
>
> M7 Summicron 50, Delta 100
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Veteran_busking
>
>
>
> This young woman was enjoying some tunes on her iPod outside a  
> University
> campus. She was not at all surprised when I approached her for the  
> photo.
> Healthy self image.
>
> M7 Summicron 28, Delta 100.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Woman_on_city_seat
>
>
>
>> From a wedding exhibit and shows a very industrial strength  
>> limousine. I was
> taken with the banners behind, as well.
>
> M7 Summicron 50, Delta 100
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Jurassic_Limo
>
>
>
> I have no idea why this very senior sailor was eating a chocolate chip
> muffin at the wedding exhibit. I think it was a brave move with a  
> white
> uniform
>
> M7 Summicron 28, Delta 100
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Morning_tea
>
>
>
> An historic building set in some pretty parkland, hosting the wedding
> exhibit then.
>
> M7 Voigtlander Skopar 25, Delta 100
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Exhibition_Centre
>
>
>
> These are a darker mood. The setting is an historical old gaol,  
> which is now
> open as an exhibit to the public. The characters are actors that  
> presented a
> small play on the life of Ned Kelly.
>
> Ned Kelly was an outlaw in Australia during the mid to later  
> 1800's. He has
> attained almost mythical status like a sort of Robin Hood. He was  
> of Irish
> immigrant stock and is often portrayed as an anti-hero oppressed by  
> the
> Colonial police.
>
> His family by all accounts did have a very tough existence, however  
> he also
> murdered at least three policemen, robbed banks, took hostages and  
> stole
> horses.
>
> Most famously his gang fashioned armour from plough shares and  
> defied police
> to hurt them.
>
> They planned to assault a train full of police sent to capture  
> them, took a
> whole pub full of hostages and waited for the train. The police  
> were tipped
> off and the gang was largely wiped out in a dramatic shootout with the
> police. Ned himself survived. It did him no good, as he was later  
> executed
> on the gallows visible in the photos.
>
> The woman portrayed his mother who was imprisoned for three years for
> helping her son resist a policeman who arrived drunk, to arrest a  
> family
> member then apparently made advances to his 14 yr old sister. Ned  
> surrounded
> him with pistol shots, wounding him once. The same pistol, I think  
> is still
> on display, complete with a chipped butt where Ned's finger was  
> shattered by
> one of 28 shot wounds suffered during his last confrontation. So I  
> enjoyed
> the play like the other visitors, however, it was a little  
> disconcerting in
> that actual setting. Some 136 people were executed on that very spot.
>
> M7 Summicron 50 f2 at 15th sec, Delta 400. I need a monopod for these
> occasions.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/ 
> Ned_Kelly_at_Old_Melbour
> ne_Gaol
>
>
>
> Photo opportunity for an audience member who participated in the  
> play. When
> I thought about it this is really a little macabre given the  
> background.
>
> Historically though, the prison is very interesting, if quite  
> horrifying as
> a place were people were incarcerated or worse in brutal  
> conditions. I shall
> pack some Neopan 1600 for next visit.
>
> M7 Summicron 50 f2 30th sec, Delta 400
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/ 
> Tourist_photo_at_old_gao
> l
>
>
>
>
>
> Easily the most chilling part of this historic site, Currently the  
> tableau
> of figures comprising Ned Kelly's hanging are removed, but the whole
> mechanics of that capital punishment era remain on display in a  
> dark, cold
> mediaeval building.
>
> M7 Summicron 50, Delta 400
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Melbourne_-Australia/Gallows
>
>
>
> Folks, all of that story has got to be worth some feedback on the  
> pictures.
> Nothing worse than your posts sinking silently into the LUG with  
> nary a
> whimper from the audience!
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Hoppy
>
>
>
>
>
>
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