Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Hemenway responded: > Doesn't sound very appealing to me at all Nathan... the winter that is. > > I can imagine the daily weather forecast: > > "Well Good Morning folks, it's 7 AM and darker than the inside of your > pocket at midnight. We'll have a great big 5 hours of daylight today > with the sun kissing the horizon. That'll be followed by hours and > hours of gloomy dark... and we'll probably get some snow and/or cold > rain." > > As Michael E. Bérubé says, "Carpe Luminem." He lives way up there in > Maine.<<<< Hell, Michael's just a real southern boy when it comes to the land of winter and darknesss, cold and freezing your butt off! ;-) How about you get up in the dark, the sky acquires a somewhat slight light glow to the south about noon and then fades to black an hour later and you go back to bed again. :-) However, as one reaches the longest days ( around the 21st of June) it never gets dark and you can pump your Leica 29 hours a day for what seems like forever with no loss of light and you find a different meaning to the "Longest Day!" :-) :-) It's a horror story at times in relation to the time of year doing a shoot in the arctic or high northern hemisphere of the planet because at certain times of the time you're working at f 1.0 or you have no excuse but to use flash of some kind. Or it's wall to wall light 24 hours ad infinitum and you shoot all the time by daylight or some sort of sunlight! :-) If you've never experienced this, "all light or all dark," it's quite an interesting phenomenon ... "all darkness or all all light" ..... You can go three days or longer without thinking of bed/sleep as long as there's action going. By the same token the darkened season is; slowly get up, kind of wake up, have something to eat, do some pictures and then go back to sleep because it's dark like night and time to go to sleep! :-) It's like, "who said bears are the only animals to hibernate?" ;-) However, good, bad or ugly it's an experince worth enjoying! ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html