[Leica] DownEast

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I like two of them a BUNCH: the whirlpool and the three skiffs by the  
pier.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

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



On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Hi Folks:
>
> I went to Maine with my daughter and son-in-law on Columbus Day  
> weekend... to his family's summer place which was a small farm in  
> the 1800s.
>
> I had planned to shoot some photos with my 11x14 at nearby Acadia  
> Nat'l Park, but the wind and heavy rain put an end to that idea.
>
> We had twelve inches of rain in two days... just 1/8th inch more  
> and we would have been "not responded to by FEMA".
>
> I shot some photos after the worst of the rain tapered down:
> http://www.hemenway.com/DownEast/
>
> None of the photos really convey the rain.  As my daughter said,  
> "It doesn't look nearly as rainy as I remember it".
>
> Four of them are my favorites but I need to edit out some of these,  
> please let me know what you think.
>
> Jim
>
>
> P.S. The very last photo shows a whirlpool next to a flooded road.   
> I've never seen one before in nature, only in a bathtub.  It  
> sounded the same but was louder and larger, about six inches across  
> at it's widest. When I put a leaf into it, it popped out on the  
> other side of the road in two seconds... pretty fast.  
> Unfortunately, it never occurred to me to dial up the ISO from 200.
>
>
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