Re: [Leica] Fwd: scenics

["Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Those Dam shots look pretty good on my monitor, and so does the dam bridge.

Regards,

Sonny

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From: "Chandos Michael Brown" <cmbrow@wm.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: [Leica] Fwd: scenics


>
>
>
> >This isn't the sort of thing that I'm generally drawn to, but I tried
some
> >landscapes when my wife and I drove the Apache Trail from Payson to
Apache
> >Junction (20 some miles of switch-back gravel road--no guard
> >rails).  These three images are all of Roosevelt Dam (first constructed
> >1905-1911) across the Salt River.  The Salt River Project, one of the
> >grand accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt's administration, brought
> >water into the southern Arizona desert, making possible the cultivation
of
> >cotton and citrus.  The sprawling ugliness of present-day Phoenix grew
> >directly from this humble start.  I remember the old dam; this is the
> >'new' one (built atop the old), which was completed in 1996.  One used to
> >drive across the dam, but the suspension bridge carries the roadway
today.
> >
> >I tried to convey how utterly remote and large is this landscape,
> >especially on a grayish cold day.  I used the Heliar 15 on an M4-P,
> >metered with a Pentax 1 degree sopt, on Kodak E100SV.
> >
> >I'm having a lot of trouble with Photoshop's jpeg compression.  The dark
> >areas of these prints are really quite open.
> >
> >Dam--looking southwest
> >
> >  http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt01.htm
> >
> >Dam--looking northwest
> >
> >  http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt02.htm
> >
> >Bridge.
> >
> >  http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/roosevelt03.htm
> >
> >
> >Chandos
>
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