[Leica] IMG: Hoppies in Yosemite, the last photo set

[len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Hi Geoff,

I have waited until now to comment on your magnificent photos of the  
western part of the US. This is quite a gallery of beautiful photos  
of places you and the family will remember for the rest of your  
lives. I wish you would put a book together as you did for the 12  
Leica Users. I know I would buy it. It would be wonderful.

Cheers,
Len


On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> Ken that is a very large compliment coming from you. And you get it  
> why I
> was shooting colour. Very largely not BW light during my all too  
> brief my
> visit anyway.
> To share a little of the feeling with you. We were bussing around  
> the valley
> floor (lots of roads closed) and many views were in fact completely
> obscured. Then the snow clouds would swirl open briefly. Two hours  
> of tour
> turned into three hours and a generous tip for the genial and  
> helpful driver
> who also did 'get it'. I had an idiot grin on my face the entire  
> time. In
> that soft light shot I was standing in a constant fall, wiping  
> large flakes
> from my lens and just gobsmacked at the watercolour light in the  
> world's
> biggest soft box. To share that place with my family was a true  
> gift to me.
> To see my kids revelling in their very first snow, right outside  
> the Ansel
> Adams gallery was pretty special too. Did I mention that I bought a
> wonderful silver print from the Ansel Gallery? My Sam said, Dad I  
> want to
> come back to this place. I haven't even begun to sort about 1000  
> shots by
> Bron and both kids from this trip yet.
> Don't laugh when I tell you that I have tears in my eyes now, just  
> thinking
> about that magic place.
> I seem to have lost your mailing address but send it to me again  
> and I'd be
> pleased to share some of this cathedral with you.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Ken Carney
> Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 11:55
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: Hoppies in Yosemite, the last photo set
>
> Geoff,
>
> I think "soft light during falling snow" is superb. Really makes me  
> wish I
> was there.  Everything is in perfect balance.  I have seen jillions of
> Yosemite photos, but this is the first (to me) successful color  
> image I have
> seen.  You may know that AA did a significant amount of color work  
> (in our
> reception area I have a book, "Ansel Adams in Color"), but I didn't  
> see
> anything I liked as well as this.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
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