Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I see this scene every time I visit my local hardware store, so I finally took a shot. Smart car parked outside the revitalized offices of the Florentine Opera Company on Burleigh Street in Riverwest. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/20180504_MR_Mine_DSF5087.jpg.html > In the 19th century, virtually all brick buildings in Milwaukee were made of this cream brick, which led to the name "Cream City", and must have given a less oppressive feeling than a city of dark red. One such structure was my high school. But by the time I went there in the '60's, it and all the others were dark from soot. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/SDHS/Ca1915_PCMR_EMKE_10AX9913A.jpg.html > -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt