Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lovely, Peter. I was struck by how much the scenery reminded me of Switzerland or southern Germany, even some of the houses. Were it not for the Buddhas and the Japanese signs, I would never have guessed that it was Japan. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jul 18, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >