Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the kind words and for the link. Those are some photos! I won't complain about heat any more, compared to sitting around at -60 waiting for a bear to wake up! Ken On 7/31/2011 11:07 AM, scleroplex wrote: > ken, this photo is so so beautiful!! > > the wildlife tracks remind me instantly of subhankar's photos from alaska! > his book is very beautiful too. > > http://www.subhankarbanerjee.org/ > > subhankar got into trouble for taking those photos because they > directly contradicted senator ted stevens' assertion in the senate > that there was no wildlife in the ANWR during the winter. > national geographic had arranged for his photographs to be displayed > in the capitol rotunda and senator stevens had them banished to the > basement cafeteria. > > poor subhankar never did get to display his lovely photos in the > rotunda in the end. > > he sat outside a polar bear den at -60C for weeks > to be the 1st person to get a photo of them waking up and coming > through in the spring. > > i had the pleasure of meeting subhankar some years ago - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/3455785790/ > :-) > bharani > > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:32:45 -0500 > From: Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> > Subject: [Leica] another cold weather photo > To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> > Message-ID:<4E34949D.1070607 at cox.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Here is one more I made, trying to recall times where the temp was below > 105. These are sand dunes in southern Utah, covered in snow, at > sunset. It was definitely cold. Very cold. Rodenstock Sironar 210mm > lens, TriX in D76 1:1. I have some large darkroom prints of this on > Seagull, but if I print it digitally I think I'll get rid of the > footprints. > > Ken > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/coral+dunes.jpg.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >