Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] Capturing the essence of rain - a challenge for the season.
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Nov 8 05:51:24 2005
References: <4cfa589b0511041619x743d4ebvdfbfe401f432e54a@mail.gmail.com> <436C40AC.2060308@planet.nl>

This one:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_27.jpg

But, there's too much Swamp Yankee in me to ever put my cameras in to 
Harm's Way like that. ;-)

Jim


Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> You can just move to the Netherlands or any other country in North-West 
> Europe. You will have many opportunities here to try to capture the 
> essence of rain ;-)
> 
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_6.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_27.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_27alt3.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_27alt5.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_29alt4.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_32alt1.jpg
> 
> etc.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> Adam Bridge wrote:
> 
>> In Jim Hemenway's fine posting from down-east in Maine he discussed
>> how he wasn't able to get an image that portrayed how hard the rain
>> was really falling.
>>
>> Earlier this week Don posted an image that really captured the essence
>> of a windy day.
>>
>> I've had this feeling that it's difficult to do rain justice on film
>> (or digital).
>>
>> So I'm proposing a challenge to all of us: to make an image that
>> captures the essence of a stormy, rainy day. The challenge to run
>> through, oh, hmmmm, have the rains ended in Australia yet? Maybe until
>> 31 March 2006.
>>
>> Post your images to the group with the Subject: Essence of a Rainy Day
>> and we'll see if we can inspire each other.
>>
>> How's that sound?
>>
>> Of course now I have to wait for it to actually rain.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Capturing the essence of rain - a challenge for the season.)
Message from nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Capturing the essence of rain - a challenge for the season.)