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Subject: [Leica] New Magazine Cover (danger - contains locomotives)
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:28:46 +0100
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Kyle,

you ask that of an avid reader of Robert Rankin?s far-fetched fiction? :-)

The only thing that's missing is Tesla power transmission (and lots of 
dirigible airships) ;-)

Great locomotive, perfectly shot!!

Cheers
Douglas

On 03.03.2010 17:22, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the literary genre of 
> "steampunk" - sometimes called "modern Victorian" - an offshoot of science 
> fiction whose premise is (vaguely) that Charles Babbage was successful in 
> getting his steam powered difference engine working and the computer 
> revolution began in the 1800's - albeit mechanically powered. I'm tickled 
> pink that the 10th issue of Semaphore magazine is using one of my 
> steampunk images on this month's cover. You can download the whole thingie 
> here:
>
> http://www.semaphoremagazine.com/Semaphore%20March%202010.pdf
>
> It's a photo I'm quite happy with. One light behind a medium shoot-thru 
> umbrella to camera left and one with a cardboard snoot behind the models 
> aimed up at the locomotive.
>
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