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Subject: [Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun Mar 12 06:43:03 2006

Thanks, Philippe. That is one that I was thinking of enlarging.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Philippe
Orlent
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 4:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images


http://www.400tx.com/9th-65.html

This one is great: the combination of haze in the background, the bus  
and barge in the foreground and the roadsign add up to one hell of an  
image.

Thanks for showing,
Philippe




Op 12-mrt-06, om 00:48 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:

> I'm done shooting in the Lower Ninth Ward. And all of the publicity
> in the
> past few weeks has created some positive results. They are now  
> bulldozing
> some houses and trying to find the hundreds of lower 9th ward  
> residents who
> are still unaccounted for. It is likely that most or all of them  
> are in
> attics and under debris. Corpses in the Lakeview area are being  
> found in
> bathtubs covered with mattresses (something people are told to do  
> in case of
> severe hurricanes and tornadoes). The number of people unaccounted for
> Louisiana and Mississippi is in the thousands. When Feli and I walked
> through the deserted neighborhood, Feli could detect the smell of  
> corpses in
> several places. My nose is 20 years older and not as sensitive.
>
> This will take you to image 61. I'm up to 110 so far.
>
> http://www.400tx.com/9th-61.html
>
> Feedback of all kinds is welcomed. After about 20 rolls of film
> down there,
> I feel like I've learned a lot but still have a lot to learn. Most  
> of these
> latter shots were taken with a 50/2.8 Elmar (most recent version).
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
>
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