Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, I am looking forward to this - if the first photograph is anything to go by, it will be a journey well worth taking with you. Cheers Jayanand On 3/21/07, Bill Clough <bill_clough@yahoo.com> wrote: > > USA > TEXAS > CORPUS CHRISTI > 20 March 2006 > > HI there-- > > Instead of PAWing this year, I have another project. > > I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had a vague > idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle and the adjacent > areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce Panhandle, but >my< Panhandle, > where I grew up. It's cowboy country--a land, then, at the end of the Dust > Bowl. We still had black dusters then, and cold fronts with sustained winds > of 75 mph. When they blew through telephone lines along the Santa Fe tracks > the sound was pure Gregorian. I stayed with the same theme for more than 15 > years and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant I would gladly spend an > entire year trying to capture that area's many moods. Its beauty isn't like > that of Colorado, for instance. It doesn't jump out at you; you have to > find > it. But it's there...some of it, anyway. For the next 74 days, I hope to > post one photo a day of this essay. Sadly, most of the subjects are gone. I > search for landmarks and cannot find them. Now, they are only here. > > --Bill Clough > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/Dusty+Sunset+0070+Feb+1962.jpg.html > > > Panhandle Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/ > > Complete Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/ > > > -- > Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually fail. Make > backups or lose your work. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >