Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wonderful! I love the memories that go along with the photo. Tina On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com