[Leica] Late Friday flower.

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Ted Grant Photography Limited
1817 Feltham Road
Victoria BC  V8N 2A4
250-477-2156
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Late Friday flower.


> Ted, drifting a little OT here, but hey it is the LUG.
> The information about the walk on stones is very interesting.
> It sounds like a Zen garden sort of tradition.
> Your no. 2 son has used them creatively.
> My walk on stones are pre-cast concrete, but they do lead to the shady hut 
> set in tropical garden and with a beer fridge.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Ted Grant
> Sent: Sunday, 17 September 2006 10:15
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Late Friday flower.
>
> Hoppy said:
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Late Friday flower.
>
>
>> Ted, that's meticulous and impressive. The background almost seems to be
>> lunar. Certainly highlights the flower beautifully, of
>> course, both with the neutral grey and the OOF smoothnes.
>> Regarding the time taken, it would have still been Friday somewhere, 
>> using
>> the accepted LUG time system.<<<
>
> Thank you kind sir. The grey "moon like" object in the background is a
> native Indian walking stone that normally is placed in the garden as a 
> walk
> on stepping stone.
>
> However number 2 son, that doesn't mean he's any lesser than his older
> brother, it seems I always have to clarify that he's second born! ;-) Or 
> you
> know who..... she etc .:-)  So Scott set most of the walk on stones on 
> edge
> in the garden..... he says " they look much better!"  So that's the kind 
> of
> lunar effect of the background.
>
> Glad you liked it, I don't do them very often but it usually happens like
> this... I go out to have a look at the property, actually to find out if 
> the
> deer have been foraging off the flowers and some little thing catches my
> eye.
>
> "Oh that looks interesting?" I go inside get the Leicanon 20D ASA 100 and
> whatever Leica lenses I think I might need and go "click, click!" ;-) 
> That's
> it.:-)
>
> You see the old KISS thing works forever! ;-)
>
> ted
>
>
>
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