Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] Blue and Red and American Politics
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sun Oct 26 08:02:34 2008
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At 08:49 AM 10/26/2008, Philippe AMARD wrote:
 >Hi Rob,
 >
 >I like the colours, the composition and the framing.
 >That's a change from blue and red casts of the dye ...
 >;-)

In 2000, a graphics cartographer named Robert 
Vanderblei was hired to produce a color-coded map 
of that year's Presidential campaign.  Being 
utterly unaware of the long custom in US politics 
that the Democrats used red as their campaign 
color and the Republicans blue, he chose the 
alternate and this has become an eight-year 
phenomenon.  We now speak of "red states" and 
"blue states" in the contravention of traditions 
going back before the US Civil War.  Wow!  How quickly we forget ....

Robert is a VERY active digital 
astro-photographer and is a serious contributor 
to the Questar List.  He states that his 
telescopes have been totally computerized since 
the middle 1990's and that he has never even 
looked through a telescope eyepiece since then as 
he does everything through digital imaging.  I am 
impressed but not swayed:  I last used a clock 
drive around that time.  I am completely visual 
and completely manual.  But I do hold Robert in 
high esteem:  his pictures are really impressive.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
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