[Leica] A short walk from my house

[quantran101 at gmail.com (Quan Tran)]

Looks like you have a very enjoyable walk. I like the shot of the birch
trees best.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I've not been very pleased with my results lately. I'm inclined to think
> it's partly because the ease of shooting with a digital camera keeps me 
> from
> thinking. When I shot film, I paid more attention to what I was doing. 
> Well,
> cest la vie; I'll learn.
>
> Anyway, I recently went for a short walk from my house and tried to make
> each photo count. Nevertheless, I took two to three shots of the ones where
> the best vantage point was not obvious.
>
> This is just an oak tree a block from my house. Since oaks are not the most
> common trees in Palo Alto, I did not realize until I saw a picture in
> today's paper that all oaks tend to look tortured.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Tortured+Tree.jpg.html
>
> I've passed this psychedelic car many times, but never thought to
> photograph it.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Car+on+Drugs.jpg.html
>
> A bit further on was an interesting group of birch trees.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Stand+of+Birch.jpg.html
>
> Finally, this expresses my amazement at the quality of the twenty to thirty
> year old f/2 35mm Summicron (Made in Canada). I was under a tulip tree, 
> left
> the 90mm lens at home. So here was this flower way up there. I just snapped
> the tree and cropped the hell out of the picture. Amazed that the result 
> was
> any good at all. I should have posted the uncropped picture just for
> bragging rights, but I guess you know how good even real old Leica lenses
> are.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Tulip+Tree+Flower.jpg.html
>
> Finally, I periodically try to get some shots at my bird feeder with the
> 90mm lens.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Bird+Feeder.jpg.html
>
> And I noticed another bird watcher looking out the window.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Another+Bird+Watcher.jpg.html
>
>
> C&C Welcome
>
> Herb
>
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>
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