Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, I'm still carefully viewing and enjoying this series. I can taste the seagulls and hear the salt. The harbour light pics are great. Nice to see the contrasting treatments of each. The BW is smooth with pleasing polish. The colour palette in the other makes another effective rendering. I also especially enjoyed the West cliff views across the harbour and towards the swing bridge. The Dracula reference is very interesting. I still admire the 'Bram Stokers Dracula' interpretation with Gary Oldman. Marvellous Gothic feel and the lush costumes were stunning. Cheers Hoppy Still sleeping with the light on. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Sharp Sent: Saturday, 22 September 2007 08:34 To: Leica Users Group Cc: leicareflex@freelists.org; LEG Subject: [Leica] Holiday snaps - The Whitby Harbour Gallery is now complete Well, complete may not be quite right, it's complete as far as tonight is concerned. Thanks for looking and for your comments/criticisms/requests There are now 3 pages, starting here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Whitby/Harbour/?g2_page=1 By way of explanation: Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, often stayed in Whitby (in factz in the house in which we have our rented apartment) and wrote that Dracula's ship was blown aground in a storm on Tate Hill Sands - a black dog jumped off the ship and ran up the Abbey Steps (all 199 of them) at the beginning of the novel (so much for it all happening in Transylvania :-) ). The Scoresbys - father and son - see monument - are credited with having invented the crow's nest to protect whalers on the lookout for their prey. Somewhere in the far north there is also Scoresbysund (between Greenland and Canada I believe, but please correct me if I'm wrong), which was named after them. Captain James Cook was not, as is often related, born in Whitby, he was apprenticed there to a shipowner and came from Great Ayton, a village further inland. His experience with Whitby built colliers - Whitby Cats - and their reliability was the reason for him recommending that the Discovery, Endeavour and Resolution were built for the Royal Navy in Whitby shipyards. Whitby is one of the very few ports in the UK still to have a shipbuilding industry - The Parkol yards, very close to where Cook's ships were built, has an excellent reputation in the construction, repair and modification of trawlers and usually has two or three under construction at one time. So all the best and good night from Hannover Douglas _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information