[Leica] first photo's replys

[jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net (jmaddox01@suddenlink.net)]

Hello Everyone,
I would like to thank all who replied to my first submission to the LUG. 
Your responce was more than I could have expected. It is encouraging and 
refreshing to read what others have to say about ones work. One would be 
hard pressed to not use it to there profit. 
To answer a few:

Philippe I have tried on more than one occasion to convert the bottle to B & 
W with no luck. I just can't seem to give it as much life as the color copy. 
It is not so much the negatives fault as my ineptitude with photoshop.

George you are absolutely right. The bottle has no place in the middle of 
the print.
It forces one to just look at the bottle in detriment to everything else and 
doesn't make for a pleasing whole. Given some time I'll see if I can correct 
this.

Tina you have me pegged after only 4 photos. I am a paint and rock kind of 
guy. I have never developed the skill to have people do anything but freeze 
when I point my camera at them. In my defense of the mill shot it was 
infinitely harder to leave the people out than in. The place is extremely 
popular and people were crawling everywhere. In the cemetery photo the 
people are there I just couldn't dig them up (pun intended).

Dominic there may be yet one more explanation for the bottle name. This was 
a whiskey bottle. It could be that ones Bottle was contained within the 
bottle and when this Bottle was depleted the bottle was discarded. Whew! 
that was hard for someone on this side of the pond to say.

Again thanks to all for your kind words and advice
Jack Maddox