Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]most enjoyable thanks for the link simon jes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon > B.D., > It's funny how perceptions vary. I found the marathon essay pedantic > and uninspired: nothing revealing to me in the essay about running, > exhaustion, pushing on. Obviously, others have a 180. > > However, http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm is an incredible > essay. Someone like I have never known is revealed with words and in > images that entirely describe the subject in visual terms. This student > needs to be moved to head of the line. > > 0.02 > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of B. D. Colen > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:41 PM > To: 'Leica Users Group' > Subject: RE: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon > > Thanks, Simon - It both shocked and delighted me, because she had > already virtually completed a project on a little municipal airport and > the old duffers there who fly restored WWII trainers - she had gone up > with them on a formation flight! And then lo and behold in she walked > with that... > > Here, btw, are a couple of the other projects.... > My Kyle-to-be > http://web.mit.edu/yamima/www/ > One of my writers forced to use a camera > http://web.mit.edu/vatz/www/photo/ogilvie/index.html > The best of the lot in a straight-ahead, pj sense.. > http://web.mit.edu/jtwang/www/docphoto > And the one that left the viewers in stunned silence... > http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > animal > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:39 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon > > > > > > So one of my students, who had already done most of the work on a > > project on a little airport outside Boston, decided that she was going > > > to make her real project a look at the Boston Marathon from a runner's > > > point of view - which is to say she ran the entire thing with an > > Olympus C5050 in hand. > > > > Like a number of the students, she was new to photography when the > > semester began, and she was given cropping advice on a number of the > > images. But that said - I think what she did is pretty terrific... > > http://web.mit.edu/jumpbean/www/marathon/index.htm > > > > B. D. > > > > More of these as they're put up. There are a couple that are pretty > > amazing, conceptually if not technically... > > > > > I thinks it was a terrific idea . > simon j > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information