[Leica] IMG: Smiling Approach - A Better Look

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Hi Jim,
Here's the best part of all for a completely successful day!
As you offered" ""All of them walked away just fine."" :-)
Some days that truly is the best part of all!"  :-) 
cheers, 
ted

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of
Jim Nichols
Sent: May-31-16 8:24 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Smiling Approach - A Better Look

Hi Ted,

You are probably right.  The wind kept changing directions that day, and 
some came in fast and tumbled to a stop.  I decided my best shots would 
be while they were still in the air, just above the ground.  All of them 
walked away just fine. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/31/2016 10:03 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> I always figured when a jumper came in to landing with a smile. he or she
> was happy they had made a successful jump! :-) And the sometimes terror
> feeling at the moment you jumped out of the plane was gone! :-)
> cheers,
> ted  :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf
Of
> Jim Nichols
> Sent: May-31-16 7:03 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Smiling Approach - A Better Look
>
> Thanks, Douglas.  I get the drift of the Latin, though my Latin classes
> were during WWII.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 5/31/2016 8:54 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>> Nice one, Jim.
>> "Puella pulchra sicut angelus semper fugit" as they used to say in
>> Rome...
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols"
>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera
>> Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 6:51 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Smiling Approach - A Better Look
>>
>>
>>> I felt this couple deserved a closer look, because of her great smile
>>> as they neared the ground for a landing.  The normal landing for
>>> tandem jumpers has the novice jumper raise his/her feet to allow the
>>> instructor to make a sliding landing.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Smile+2.tif.html
>>>
>>> Fuji X-E1 with Leica Summicron-R 50mm plus Extender-R 2X, cropped
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>>
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