Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01

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Subject: Re: The Leica Challenge Cup! Playoff!
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 10:01:54 -0500

At 12:01 AM 9/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>	By the way, do anyone know whether Sam Abel shot the National
>Geographic article on Northern Australia a year or two back with Leica
>glass:  the cover picture of an aborigine with painted face looking up
>from a pool of water seems to me to have the feeling of depth and tonal
>scale and colour that I think is characteristic of pics shot with Leitz
>glass - which, if he happens to be shooting with a Nikon, shows how little
>able I am to recognize Leica pics.  

Yes, Sam Abel uses Leica SLRs. His book "Stay This Moment" is his magnum
opus, and it's simply filled with absolutely gorgeous pictures, many of
which demonstrate the Leica look. I understand he uses Olympus for exotic
lenses that Leica doesn't have, but mostly Leica.

Don't get me wrong, he'd be a great photographer using Ricoh. David Allen
Harvey, another NG photographer, once told me that most Geographic
photographers consider Sam Abel the greatest artist at NG.

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.