Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/12

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Subject: [Leica] Dior Images background
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Jul 12 17:34:29 2008

Hi Peter,
the competition was run by Dior. I can't remember how I found it. The 
promotion was for a male perfum Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit 32. You had to put 
up a virtual gallery to express the nature of the scent (whatever that 
meant). Fahrenheit seemed to have a "hot" theme and Fahrenheit 32 a "cold" 
theme. So you chose one of the two themes and uploaded images (with great 
difficulty I might add). The galleries were displayed on the site and people 
could vote for their favorite. Then in early July a panel selected the 
winning gallery. 

My images were in the "cold" theme, taken in Svalbard. These were taken on 
the most northerly land mass (island) we visited Paryoya. We had been hiking 
around the tundra, wary of meeting a polar bear. I was taking images of the 
landscape: there was a stream I thought might be interesting, but we moved 
on. On the way back to the zodiacs we came across a snow drift, melting in 
the summer "heat". The melting patterns and the underlying colourful rocks 
really interested me (and others) and I hastily took about 12 images before 
we were moved on. Perhaps the lack of time actually helped, but when I got 
back on the boat, I really liked the effect of the images and so we chose a 
selection for the competition. The snow was wind blown surface covered with 
a fine layer of dust, the underlayers were blue ice and the reds, blues and 
greens of the rocks set off the the patterns. I have contracted the contrast 
range, but done little more to bring out the colours and patterns. For the 
gallery, I chose a square format, though some of the images work best as 
verticals.

Thanks for asking

Alastair

--- pdzwig@summaventures.com wrote:

From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] I need witnesses
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:37:32 +0100

Alastair,

can we hear a little about the background. How many photos? Shot where? was 
the 
kit Leica? I can see the photos on the wall and can move from one to 
another, 
but the images aren't very good quality. (You simply view the popup; which 
you 
can do under FFX3, even if the popup is blocked, because you have the 
optioon to 
view it anyway  - click where it says options )

Long to see them on the LUG Gallery.

Again,

congratulations,

Peter Dzwig

Tina Manley wrote:
> At 04:23 AM 7/11/2008, you wrote:
> 
>> http://www.dior.com/pcd/International/JSP/Home/prehomeMiniFlash.jsp?pTPL=1073&pLANG=enall
>>  
>>
>>
>> and the pop up logo from Leica suggests that I have won something. Is 
>> this what you see? I never expected to win of course, but I would have 
>> expected them to write to me.
>>
>> Alastair
> 
> 
> Your name is everywhere!  With mention of an M8 for the prize.  
> Congratulations!!!!   What a wonderful honor.  The art works "hanging" 
> on the walls of their virtual gallery don't look like actual photos and 
> I can't figure out how to look at more.  Are there other displays of the 
> actual photos somewhere?  One of Leica's biggest problems is 
> communication.  I'm not surprised that they haven't notified you.  That 
> is definitely you and you are the big winner.  I am a witness ;-)
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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