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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tribal Cirque dancers and acrobats
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:08:13 -0500
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Nicely captured, Geoff, and Shamara is beautiful!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 6:05 AM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tribal Cirque dancers and acrobats


>I encountered these talented folks performing at a local shopping centre.
> They are from Aerial Angels agency based on our Gold Coast.
> They were very pleased when I returned the next day with a pile of prints
> for them. I got to shoot their show that day from inside their performance
> area. Cool!
>
> Some talented, fun, vibrant dancers and enormously fit and skilled 
> acrobats.
> The star of the show was Shamara who performed on a hoop and suspended by
> bolts of cloth (silks). Absolutely remarkable flexibility, strength and
> grace, constantly in motion and suspended only by the friction of the
> wrapped cloth for much of the shows.
> M9 , 50 and a 75, largely 1000 ISO. Not so easy with manual focus and 
> wider
> apertures!
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/tc
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
> *Australia, paying for the world's carbon sins, one tonne at a time**.*
>
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