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Subject: [Leica] Not a PAW - The Leavings, Western Ghost Towns
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Feb 15 10:48:12 2006

Damn that Dick Cheney! :-)


On 2/15/06 1:40 PM, "GREG LORENZO" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote:

> bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> writes in part:
> 
>> Hillbilly-land?
>> 
> 
> Hill people yes. In fact as I was shooting the ghost town, which is high 
> up in
> the hills of Montana some yahoo lets loose with a high powered rifle over 
> my
> head at a bull elk.
> 
> This was not during hunting season.
> 
> I took this as an invitation to leave quickly which I did.
> 
> 
>> Greg, have you tried cropping-out the road/track and coming tighter
>> in on the right. My eye is distracted by the lightness of the
>> track ............ away from the vehicle (focus point) and the
>> back- ground.
>> 
> 
> I actually have some tighter in-camera shots and some wider shots showing 
> more
> of the road out of town. (I've got to find all the negatives.) It looks to 
> me
> like this old jalopy was leaving town, died on the roadway and was pushed 
> into
> the bushes. Most likely this occured in the 1930's or 40's.
> 
> The local mine ran out of ore in the late 19th century.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Not a PAW - The Leavings, Western Ghost Towns)
In reply to: Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] Not a PAW - The Leavings, Western Ghost Towns)