Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Boat Portraits
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Tue Sep 12 09:52:15 2006
References: <p06230913c12c7febc0f4@[10.0.1.2]> <20060912162700.GA28044@hermes.walkereng.com>

I don't know.  I was crewing on a 1960's vintage 38-foot Westerly 
center-cockpit ketch.  Heavy as all get out but moves like the wind 
close reaching, which was the case for most of this race.


>On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:43:12AM -0400, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>  Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a straightforward picture
>>  of an object that depicts the thing accurately yet is also
>>  interesting photographically.  Here are three attempts at boat
>>  portraits.  I wanted not only to depict the boat accurately in
>>  interesting light in these pictures but also catch a sense of action.
>>  In this case that meant capturing the bow wave as it splashed away
>>  from the bow of the boat with the boat moving up a wave.
>>
>>  ...
>
>Did any of those other guys take a good picture of your boat?  Ask them
>to post it. :-)
>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick

In reply to: Message from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) ([Leica] Boat Portraits)
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