Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slobodan, please tell me that the link does not go to Holga photos. I couldn't bear to look in case it is true. By the way the Ansel Adams gallery in the valley still has a bunch of film in stock. The nice lady told me, 'Oh, yes photographers come here and have to do it the old school way' Cheers LV Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:20 PM 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 >> >>> 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. >>> 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.