[Leica] Clown's Eyes

[crbirchenhall at googlemail.com (Christopher Birchenhall)]

Hi

Here's a photo with a story but if you are not interested in the story
please pass on or just look at the photo here (all comments welcome):

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/Image13a_001.jpg.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/2jh3na

The story? It's title is "Clown's Smile". I was out testing a Leica M3
(with modern 50mm Elmar) in my usual area (Macclesfield canal) with
other kit (more on that). When I printed this photo to A4 it reminded
me of a session of John Prine with Johnny Walker on BBC 2 (UK). One of
the songs John Prine sung was a version of his "Other Side of Town"
which has the chorus "a clown puts his make-up upside down so he wears
a smile even when he wears a frown" . On reflection this boat has a
clown's smile reflecting its abandon state. The boat resides just
above bridge 26; both will reoccur in my canal series.

Chris B