Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/creekbedsnowpage.html I got my first camera with adjustments December '65 For Hanukah / Christmas. A Voigtl?nder Vito BL, Color-Skopar 1:2,8/50, Prontor SVS shutter http://www.enter-net.de/auktion/photo/vitobl.htm I went outside in the snow after opening up all my presents and getting dressed with a first roll of Ektachrome 64 in the camera. I lived on Riverside Drive in Northfield Illinois. The river was really a creek which had frozen over. It was a newly made development we lived in the Hamilton reversed. Garage on the right. I lay on my stomach in the snow on the frozen over creek and took this picture. I was 14 in 1964. My mom entered it into a contest in Sterns camera store on Elm Street in Winnetka. I won a prize I think second. She'd had a 5x7 made put it in a matt. They put it on the wall. It in effect if you don't count Brownies its my first roll of film. I still use the shot. Loved that zone focusing. A case could be made that that is why I became a photographer. And I live on Riverside Drive still. Right off it. Only this time its the real river - the Hudson. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner