Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Jul 17 07:25:46 2005
References: <9b678e05071620571236c0df@mail.gmail.com> <BEFFFF3F.4177%philippe.orlent@pandora.be>

Phillippe,
I appreciate the link to the site.  I had last visted several years
ago and had enjoyed what he had done then.  Some of the last postings
from the bronze manufacturing plant were fabulous.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 7/17/05, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
> Very nice, Don. Esp. the bath room.
> I can recommend this site if you're interested in this kind of photography.
> 
> http://abandoned-places.com/
> 
> And he shoots M6, too.
> 
> ---
> 
> > From: Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:57:50 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW
> >
> > I have been fascinated with Atlanta's insensitivity to buildings of
> > any age.  Not far from my house is a small neighborhood of homes built
> > probably in the late forties that is scheduled to be demolished for a
> > high rise condominium.  What used to be middle to upper middle class
> > housing has had the valuable moldings, mantels, and bath fixtures
> > removed and holes punched into the walls to discourage the homeless
> > from moving in.
> >
> > Below is the beginning of my record keeping of these homes.
> >
> > First up is a wide view of a bedroom almost as if a storm warning had
> > caused the owners to flee, leaving their possessions behind them:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/happybirthdayroom
> >
> > This is a closer view, the web will probably not show the wrapping
> > paper proclaiming "Happy Birthday"
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/happybirthdaycloser
> >
> > For some reason, I find this image of ivy growing into the room very 
> > engaging:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/windowintojungle
> >
> > Likewise, a mostly normal room with the wild taking over almost like a
> > doomsday SCIFI novel:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/triffidbathroom
> >
> > Comments, brickbats, derision, or your poor tired unexposed film all
> > cheerfully accepted.
> >
> > Don
> > don.dory@gmail.com
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Don's PAW)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Don's PAW)