[Leica] IMG Don's PAW 28 Peachtree Road Race images

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

Hoppy,

I see in your shot of the "readers", no tie-in whatsoever to footracers 
near them.  Instead, I see reflected in the glass, a line of
potbellied men.  Faced with that, I would rather read the Atlanta phone 
book.

Try again
Jerry


G Hopkinson wrote:
> Entertaining, as always, Don. I want to set you a mission for next time to 
> show us the lithe and graceful Kenyans as well.
> Magnificent athletes.
> I note that the family blithely reading newspapers at the race's edge 
> appear to be wearing athletic shoes. Perhaps they are
> absorbing the event and effort by osmosis. In the old days I might have 
> been tempted to make them a present of a used wet sponge
> from the water station. I think these are no longer in use though. Perhaps 
> a quick squirt from a water bottle might refocus their
> attention.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW 28 Peachtree Road Race images
>
> If it is July then you will see images from the race.  No surprise, the 
> Kenyans took first through 5th place.  I took up a different
> place on the course this year and it was not as good for photographs.  
> Good enough however to show you he said with a leer.  OK,
> first up is a sense of scale to the canyon that Atlanta is becoming as we 
> go from 2 million residents to over 5:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+28/PAW28_incanyon.jpg.html>
>
> This woman is part of the sixth release of runners so she could watch the 
> first four before she had to move to the start line.  She
> was a bit intense:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+28/PAW28_intensity.jpg.html>
>
> Of course, the fourth of July would not be what it is unless graced by a 
> liberty or two:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+28/PAW28_ladylib.jpg.html>
>
> This was the first year that there was a median on Peachtree and this man 
> was a little bit confused as to why I was there.  Bear in
> mind that this is a 15mm...
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+28/PAW28_mediandweller.jpg.html>
>
> For the last image you have to bear in mind that 60,000 folks are running 
> past 20 feet in front of this family.  It is good that
> they all read though:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week+28/PAW28_newsreader.jpg.html>
>
> I hope you enjoyed this weeks images and you all have a good week ahead of 
> you.
>
>