Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] PAW
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Thu Jan 26 00:20:35 2006
References: <BFFB82B7.BBF%Engl6914@cableone.net>

Really like the stark black and white effect.

May I ask if you tried removing the door frame on the left and the  
window frame on the right? I think that crop would enhance the image.

Thanks for showing and detailing part of history,
B.

On 24-jan-2006, at 16:07, Lee England wrote:

> This is my second PAW--a print I did this week.  It's the interior  
> of the
> church at Rocky Springs, Mississippi, on the old Natchez Trace.  It  
> was
> there when General Grant's army invaded Mississippi, passing by on  
> the road
> just outside.  All of the yankee Army of Tennessee's infantry  
> divisions
> bivouaced on various days around the church because of the water  
> source of
> Rocky Springs.
>     The Army of Tennessee moved on to Jackson, then turned toward  
> Vicksburg
> and beat us at Champion Hill near Edwards, Miss., then took the  
> bridge over
> the Big Black River (near US highway 80 bridge).  Once they had  
> that and
> then took Haynes Bluff, giving them access to supply boats on the  
> Yazoo
> River, Vicksburg was doomed.  When Vicksburg fell it just killed us.
>     Taken with Leica M2, 35mm Summaron, Ilford HP5 developed in HC110.
>
> http://englandphotographic.com/paw.html
>
> Lee England
> Natchez, Mississippi
>
>
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In reply to: Message from Engl6914 at cableone.net (Lee England) ([Leica] PAW)