Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's been so hot and humid here this summer. Recent weekends see me staying in, lazy, with the curtains drawn until 2 or 3 pm. By this time my seven year old daughter near at her wits' end begs me to go out and play. So, I rustle up a late quick lunch, grab a camera, a lens or two, and we go out for the rest of the day. This is our too- hot-summer weekend routine. Today I put her on the back of my bicycle and cycled to the river. I brought my Canon film EOS and 400/2.8 (not an easy rig to balance on a bicycle shopping basket) with 2x converter to photograph some birds while she made friends with other kids cooling their legs in the river. On my 10th shot, I caught some real beauties, you should have seen them, but then I realized that there was no film in the EOS body (I wanted to shoot slide instead of digi, and thought I put film in the old EOS last night). I had my daughter's Canon S90 in my pocket, so I took some photos of her by the river, then of a river shrimp that some other kid's dad had fished out. As we were about to get back on the bicycle, Maria noticed a rainbow on a stone, cast by sparkly plastic on the cycle spoke. Back home for a few minutes, I replaced the heavy, long lens rig with my M8 and 35 asph 'cron and headed out again. Where in the world did my angel want to go, the sky's the limit? MacDonalds, of course. One Happy Meal later and we rode to the local play-park where we whizzed off some extra energy. On the way back home we saw some interesting clouds, some buddhas in a barn, sunflowers, and a beautiful magenta-pink lily. Yes, I did have the IR-cut filter on my M8's lens. Back home in Kagamizu Village we saw some pretty sunset scenes with mists rising from the forested hills. I squeezed these moments into a 23 second slideshow, but at least a couple of photos should be removed from the set, and I can't choose which. One pair, towards the end, is of a house the other side of a stream valley, surrounded by forest hills and a sunset. I took it in portrait and landscape aspects and can't decide which I prefer, although the portrait version shows the stream better. Slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157624527736826/show/ Thanks for looking, Peter Cheyne (Any C&C, including which photos to drop, welcome)