Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, After a rainstorn once you were west of Topeka you could see a really long way in the fifties. I remember in 1958 driving west to Colorado from Nebraska and seeing the Rockies lift off the horizon. Then we drove another two-three hours until we hit the foot hills. On 8/18/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Don Dory wrote: > > > Graham, > > I love your clouds and your landscapes. I am trapped in a city > > with large > > bluffs surrounding a piddling river so I never see the grand > > landscape. But > > I grew up on the plains in Kansas and Mississippi where you could > > see on a > > good day 300 miles and the thunderheads coming in were glorious > > with their > > anvil heads forming up and the lightning strikes visible 62 > > kilometers away. > > > > On 8/17/07, geebee <geebee@geebeephoto.com> wrote: > >> > >> Leica M6 : 50mm Noctilux : red filter : Kodak Professional BW400 CN > >> > >> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2007/07258.htm > >> > > > I, too, admire Graham's body of work. He has extracted serious drama > out of what is basically a pastoral countryside. It can't all be the > red filters. But Don, unless you were in an airplane flying over > Kansas, the farthest you could see was about 15 miles, and that only > when the corn pollen smog didn't pollute the air. And while I agree > that the Atlanta scenery is bland, if you want to shoot dramatic > landscapes you are only about 2 hours from the Blue Ridge Parkway and > three hours from the Smokies. Nothing in Graham's UK looks like > either of these locations, OK, perhaps the Snodonia Mountains look a > bit like the Blue Ridge. > > Larry Z (born and corn fed in the Midwest) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com