Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, I will have to steal back the negatives from my brother. They are of far better quality than the ones you show and possibly demonstrate how devestating the water was to a better degree than a train floating on the water. It will be awhile as he is a hoarder first class and I will have to accumulate things of more interest to him than the negatives. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/12/06, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > > I rest Don's Case! > > http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/1927/ > > Regards, > > Sonny > > > > In a message dated 1/12/2006 12:50:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, > don.dory@gmail.com writes: > The second example is a roll of 6X9 negatives that my grandmother had > kept > from her mothers family. They were images from just before to just after > the 1927 flood on the Mississippi. The just before images show boats on > the > river at the very top of the levee, possibly fifty feet above flood stage > at > that location. The following images are of ten feet of water as far > as the > eye can see lapping at the porch of the plantation house. (When > that house > was built they respected the river and built anything of real importance > way > above ground) > > Today, those images will be at best on a hard drive in some > landfill. Like > Sonny, I am shooting film and labeling negatives. When I move to the dM > I > will have to print far more than I do now. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >