Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Times Square and "The Kiss"
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:37:36 -0400

Time Square was mobbed last Saturday afternoon and I'll bet a thousand other 
people took exactly this picture. 
 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/NYC/P1010515.jpg.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2cx8pfs

Eisenstadt's iconic photograph of "The Kiss" taken in Times Square at the 
end of WW2 is getting alot of attention this year.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/from-photos-periphery-an-eyewitness-to-a-timeless-kiss/?scp=1&sq=eisenstadt&st=cse
or
http://tinyurl.com/268kgrb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V?J_day_in_Times_Square

And this tall replica of the event got alot of attention last Saturday, 65 
years to the day from when it was taken. .  
 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/NYC/P1010606.jpg.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/23xjj87

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/NYC/P1010618.jpg.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/239584r

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/NYC/P1010619.jpg.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/242f9qw

GF-1 20mm f1.7 ISO 400.

C&C always welcome. 

Regards, 

Dick





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