Re: [Leica] BIKE (w/Leica content)

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Heck yeah!
Whaddashot!
Dan
- -mouse potato extraordinaire!-
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Schiemer <schiemer@magicnet.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:34 AM
Subject: [Leica] BIKE (w/Leica content)


> In keeping with the manifesto to stay ON TOPIC:
> Was riding my full Record, curly tail Hetchins last Thursday, my CL
strapped
> over my neck and on my back. [I've taken to the CL lately, it's a fine
> little camera.]
> My goal was to mail a letter at the Post Office about five miles away,
> there's a little park just now opened up on the way, nice gazebo near the
> highway. A photo op in the making.
> But, on the way, there's a car fire- so I decide to get some images there.
> I'm waiting for the cops and firemen to come, the car is spewing thick
black
> smoke in a plume of flame driven torrent. Everyone stands a respectable
> fifty feet away, the Hollywood syndrome (exploding cars).
> My LEICA goal is to get THE shot; right vantage point, right framing,
right
> exposure. I plan quickly where I should be when the action starts (wind
> direction, traffic, spectators, focal length), it's all AUTOMATIC (don't
> think, just do).
> Turns out I'm on the sidewalk next to the doctors office where all the
> workers have gravitated outside to watch (hey, it's a small town, this is
> big news). While I wait an older fellow in lab coat walks up:
> "Now that's a picture." he exclaims.  "What's a picture?" I ask.
> "The Leica and that fantastic bike, you must be a man of good taste." he
> replies.
>
> Haven't developed the film yet (tonight I'm in the lab); but the shot was
> two firemen handling a 2", just as one opened the nozzle, holding the left
> and right side of the frame (no more than three feet from me!), the car
just
> a blob of molten metal and melting rubber in the background (bokei), and
the
> flames and smoke rising up in the center!  Shot it about Y8 I think. B&W.
>
> My question; is this considered on topic for the self appointed thought
> police?