Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Stranger #29
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:25:30 -0800 (PST)

The Americans have their garage, the Canadians their
basement, the Germans their attic, the French their
kitchen and the Chinese & Japanese, their rooftops.

- --- GeeBee <graham@geebeespaw.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The Brits have a thing about garden sheds. They
> house model railways,
> observatories, radio ham equipment, darkrooms and
> just about anything else
> you can think of.  Sheds are also quiet backwaters
> that provide peace and
> quiet and a place to unwind. I have no first hand
> knowledge of this but it
> is well documented. The BBC has even made programmes
> on the Great British
> Shed. It may be a world wide phenomenon, if it isn't
> then only the Brits
> will understand its' importance to some of the
> population.
> 
> Some sheds are very plain affairs but others are
> quite ornate, grandiose
> even. I saw this one over a garden fence whilst out
> walking along the canal
> towpath. I thought it would make a colour shot with
> the owner as a
> 'stranger' but as usual I wimped out and carried on
> walking without asking
> the owner, who was working nearby,  if I could take
> a photograph.
> 
> Two hundred yards later I decided to go back and ask
> if I could take a
> photograph but the owner had gone, so after hanging
> around for a few minutes
> waiting for him to return and getting twitchy I
> settled for a colour shot of
> the shed. I had to lean over the fence slightly to
> get the fence out of the
> shot and because the shed was quite close I took the
> 35mm Summicron from the
> M6(b&w) and put it on the M2(colour). Took a couple
> of shots and the owner
> returned so I asked if I could take his photograph.
> He agreed. I took the
> shot. I resumed my walk.  I had, as ever, been jumpy
> as hell photographing a
> stranger so that was probably why I had taken his
> photograph, in colour,
> with a red filter on the lens from a previous shot.
> I went back and got
> this:
> 
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/michael2.html
> 
> I think it was worth it but then only I know the
> pain of getting it. Maybe I
> should write a book 'How to take photographs whilst
> having a panic attack'
> 
> Strangers Index:
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/strangers.html
> 
> --Graham
> 
> 
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