Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the South Street Seaport in Manhattan is a German four-masted ship, on which you can see a film. Sometime early in the last century one of the crew had recorded some of the life of the ship. He was up in the rigging with his camera (no lightweight, either) while the ship rounded Cape Horn in a gale. You see the bowsprit, fifty feet off the water, repeatedly going under. How anyone ever survived those passages is a miracle to this city-dweller. > Alan Hull wrote: > > > I realised many years ago the futility of trying to capture the immense power of the > >ocean in a still photograph. > > >Its the scale of the thing. A still foto of a storm on the open ocean > >looks like boating lake. Honest. >