Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Steve, I like the main pic, but I like the alternate better. The people are out of focus, yes, but as you say the ketchup bottle on the counter is such an ubiquitous feature of diners that it is entirely appropriate to focus on it. And the people are still very recognizable. These two pictures remind me of my annual Thanksgiving trip to visit my family in Florida during the 5 years we lived in New Jersey (1990-95). We drove the 1100 miles, starting around 10-11 p.m. so as to pass the big cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond) during the night and avoid the traffic. Breakfast was often ingested around 6 a.m. in a place just as you depict, somewhere in one of the Carolinas. Nathan Steve LeHuray wrote: > SonC's Diner pictures prompted me use this Truck Stop photo. Diners have > been a great American institution (particularly in the North East) but truck > stops are all over the entire continent and are almost like small villages > in some cases. If you live in a desolate rural area and need interesting > photos, guaranteed you will find them at the truck stop on the Interstate. > Some of the most interesting characters you will ever meet are truck > drivers, over the years I have met several PHD's who gave up all those years > of education for the romance of the open road, including my own father who > gave up a successful career as a CPA because he heard the call of the road. > > I took this main PAW picture last week at a Pennsylvania truck stop while > driving to Ted's workshop in Maine. On the alternate, yes I know the people > are out of focus, instead my camera was focused on the ketchup bottle which > you will find on every diner and truck stop counter in the world: > > http://www.streetphoto.net/paw44.html > > To see the complete PAW: http://www.streetphoto.net/ > > All comments are welcome. > > sl > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html