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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Whistler's Sunrise
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:30:47 -0500
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I'm with Tina, change the image to a couple at sunrise.  Start noisily
snapping away.  A good image if they stay and a good image if they leave..


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed it is wonderful when it all comes together.
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Jon Streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > For example:
> >
> > I was in Iowa visiting the old family farm, crested a hill and thought
> the
> > vista was so beautiful, I just had to stop and photograph it.  Parked at
> > roadside, got out, picked the 35mm lens (a Nikon, probably thinking how
> > much better the image would be with the M3 I'd sold to buy the fancy
> Nikon
> > with its little color television set inside for a viewfinder and its
> nifty
> > way of turning into a telescope with long lenses), and just as I was
> about
> > to press the shutter release, a countrified gal in a rusty, battered
> pickup
> > -- both apparently from central casting -- pulled off a side road and
> > proceeded right into the lonely country road winding through open fields,
> > meadows, and green, green trees,  which I had visualized as totally
> > peaceful, rustic, unruffled by the presence of humanity, and parked right
> > in the middle of the shot, got out, and walked off into the fields and
> > woods never to return, perhaps reabsorbed into an alternate reality to
> > wreak havoc with a photographer in a parallel universe, that being her
> > reason for being, her mission here accomplished.  There were no other
> cars
> > on the road.  None. Just her, and she came along at just the right time
> and
> > place to ruin the shot.  What are the chances?
> >
> > Another time, this time in Pasadena, I noticed the brick fa?ade of a
> > storefront, sidelit from the afternoon sun, a transitory effect, passing
> > into history as I watched.  I whipped out my Leica, took a light reading
> (I
> > am NOT good at judging settings without a meter, sorry, purists),
> > focused...and just at that moment, a car coasted to a stop right in the
> > middle of the scene.  They weren't parked, exactly, just stopped for no
> > apparent reason.  I crossed the street and, conscious of the fading
> light,
> > asked them how long they might be.  They had no idea because their engine
> > had just quit, and they were waiting for a tow truck.  I mean, really,
> what
> > are the chances?
> >
> > I should, of course, give credit to this interactive universe we're in
> for
> > the lucky accidents that have given me gifts of photographs I really
> like,
> > those photographs when lights, camera, and action converged into one
> > ultimate, unrepeatable instant.  Thank you, universe, for your
> gifts...and
> > your really, really annoying sense of humor.
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 6:56 AM
> > To: lug at leica-users.org
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Whistler's Sunrise
> >
> > jon streeter wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>  This could be part of an entertaining thread:  beautiful photographs
> > sabotaged by interlopers.  A couple mine occurred to me immediately.
> > <<<
> >
> > Likewise...
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
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-- 
Don
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Replies: Reply from rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler) ([Leica] IMG: Whistler's Sunrise)
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