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Subject: [Leica] I got a new camera yesterday...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Dec 16 00:03:16 2008

Stupendous imagery!



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:20:58 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I got a new camera yesterday...
> 
> I spent 3 days on a junket, by the LA Dept of Water, in Owens Valley,
> in back of Yosemite. I was an elected official then. It was the
> public affairs dept. job to schmooze us. Great trip. I got to see
> what kept photographers so enthralled with the place.
> I even found 120 film in a local camera store. The owner said that he
> didn't see much of my kind anymore, what with digital and all that.
> Some Holga samples from the trip;
> http://laborphoto.blogspot.com/2007/08/dwp-owens-valley.html
> sd
> 
> 
> On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Its my favorite part of the whole USA. I think of it as "the east
>> coast of
>> california".
>> I traveled through it two weeks after 911 in a non cruise control
>> Volvo
>> station wagon to San Antonio to a LHSA meeting. I just went low and
>> slow and
>> avoided radar kinda like a cruise missile.
>> Baghdad Caf? is there. Amonst other stuff. Those rocks which Ansel
>> shot.
>> The Japanese concentration camp. And so on.
>> Nice lakes.
>> Mountains.
>> Plains.
>> Stupendous light.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:12 -0800
>>> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: RE: [Leica] I got a new camera yesterday...
>>> 
>>> Go due West a few ( 5-10) miles from Las Vegas... There is a very
>>> nice park
>>> there ( Red Rock Park???) that just glows in the last rays of light.
>>> 
>>> Sorry to hear of your misfortune in Yosemite......  I understand
>>> the weather
>>> is never crisp sunny and bright.....  all it seems to do is
>>> change.  Just
>>> plain terrible.
>>> 
>>> If you decide to go to Zion NP, ( about 150 miles due north) spend
>>> your time
>>> in the Valley plus some time traversing the road North, out of the
>>> park.....
>>> it is just plain wonderful......
>>> Trees may still be turning up there......  A few weeks ago the
>>> leaves in St.
>>> George were not yet fully colorful......
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> red735i@earthlink.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Everytime we came to a scenic location the winter storm kept
>>> swirling around the mountains when sunlight wasn't breaking
>>> through. I don't
>>> 
>>> see how anyone can make nice snapshots in conditions like that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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