[Leica] A tourist photo, sort of.

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I really like the rich, rich color.

Backward walking is a must-have skill for any photog who's had to  
cover parades.

Nice work.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:

>
> I've posted other images of the Saturday Boy's Club, so some of you  
> may
> recognize the subject here.
>
> Preston Jones Jr, aka Colonial Williamsburg silversmith, also  
> interprets an
> ensign and standard bearer in the Virginia militia. He's been  
> bemoaning the
> fact that, while he's appeared on the cover of three issues of the CW
> magazine (and in a poster and as an action figure), no one's  
> photographed
> him in his regimentals.  He's especially proud of the silver gorget  
> dangling
> from his neck, which he made.  He asked me to make an image, so this
> afternoon I obliged.  For what it's worth, the fellow with the  
> baton to
> Preston's right is Lance Pettigrew, the grand Wazoo of the Fife and  
> Drum
> Corps, and another drinking buddy.
>
> Those of you who've been to CW know how difficult it is to seize  
> images sans
> "guests," so I was emboldened to get right close with this short tele.
>
> I made this with my Olympus point and shoot and the Zuiko 50/2 (at  
> F2),
> walking backward at a dizzyingly rapid pace.
>
> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/ensignjones.htm
>
> Comments, derision, etc.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chandos
>
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