Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No derision - very nice! And as you note, especially nice that it's a real 'time machine' image without any iPod-bearing touristas in the shot. ;-) On 9/14/05 12:16 AM, "Chandos Michael Brown" <chandos@cox.net> wrote: > > I've posted other images of the Saturday Boy's Club, so some of you may > recognize the subject here. > > Preston Jones Jr, aka Colonial Williamsburg silversmith, also interprets an > ensign and standard bearer in the Virginia militia. He's been bemoaning the > fact that, while he's appeared on the cover of three issues of the CW > magazine (and in a poster and as an action figure), no one's photographed > him in his regimentals. He's especially proud of the silver gorget > dangling > from his neck, which he made. He asked me to make an image, so this > afternoon I obliged. For what it's worth, the fellow with the baton to > Preston's right is Lance Pettigrew, the grand Wazoo of the Fife and Drum > Corps, and another drinking buddy. > > Those of you who've been to CW know how difficult it is to seize images > sans > "guests," so I was emboldened to get right close with this short tele. > > I made this with my Olympus point and shoot and the Zuiko 50/2 (at F2), > walking backward at a dizzyingly rapid pace. > > http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/ensignjones.htm > > Comments, derision, etc. > > Cheers! > > Chandos > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information