Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/29/2010 07:52 AM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote: > This weekend I visited Fukuoka to attend the Sumo finales. I wanted > the closest seat I could get, so stumped up for the 540 dollar > ticket. Lucky. Still no real contenders for promotion to Yokozuna, though. > However, my seat was in the furthest row (the 8th row) of the > pricey rows. Because I wasn't as close as I wanted to be, my 200mm > wide open at f/2.8 didn't throw the crowd out of focus as much as I > wanted. <snip> > All the best, > > Peter Cheyne Nice photos; I actually prefer the one where the spectators are more visible. It feels more like the viewer is "there". As a sumo fan, I've got to ask: which bout was this, and which bout was the photo in your next post? I didn't keep up with the Fukuoka basho like I should have. -- C. L. Basso Walled Lake, Mich. "His every breath a kind of ebb that leaves him further from himself, he floats rather than steers to the island of the mad - beyond all trade-routes, in a doldrum sea, its high crags burning." -- Mervyn Peake, /Gormenghast/