Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!