[Leica] IMGs: Freelance Salvage in Jersey City

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

And so don't leave us hanging? Were they good guys just doing a job?  OR? 
:-).......................

ted
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From: "Jeff Moore" <jbmmllug at jbm.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:45 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Freelance Salvage in Jersey City


> So, a few weeks ago Kath told this funny story about seeing a couple
> of guys in the 110 First construction lot, cutting the beams left
> there to size and loading them in a pickup. They took a few days to
> finish the project. For the longest time she didn't really notice
> them. They had hard hats and work gloves and work boots, and they were
> working methodically and with no sign of self-consciousness, so of
> course they were supposed to be there doing a job, right?
>
> It eventually occurred to her that maybe they weren't. She (and
> everyone she told the story to) kind of admired their style.
>
> This morning they appeared right below our window. "Hey, it's those
> dudes! The ones with the hard hats and the torch and the pickup
> truck!" exclaimed Kath.
>
> I took some pictures.
>
> If you crave Leica content: they're with a 180mm APO-Elmarit-R on an
> Olympus OM-D E-M5.  But I'm not recommending  these as examples of
> stunning optical quality, taken as they were through a window, and in
> some cases heavily cropped.  But it's an entertaining little story as
> it unfolds, I think.
>
> To view them in sequence, as the story unfolds, on a nice black
> background - start here:
>
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/7858794296/in/set-72157631240860160/lightbox/
>
> The Flickr set page is here:
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157631240860160/with/7858794296/
>
>
> -Jeff
>
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