Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/10

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again (Don Dory)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Mon Jul 10 01:42:01 2006

Don ,those are great images. I am an ex distance runner (marathon)and I
think you've captured the sense of the experience very well. And the Kenyans
run with grace, joy and inspiration. Truly magic athletes. 
I think that http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewoman20
is a quality documentary shot such as would be welcomed in Runners World or
similar.
My favourite is
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewaterjump
which is more National Geographic essay, if that makes sense.

Great timing
Cheers
Hoppy
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 21:10:15 -0400
From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
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Welcome back to the July 4th celebrations in Atlanta.  This year you will
actually see real runners as opposed to the last 50,000 folk who treat this
as a social event.  All the images were taken at about the halfway point on
"cardiac hill" named as much for the long grade as the fact that one of the
best hospitals for heart ailments is just uphill.  So, this is an image of a
youngster with some energy left after 3 klicks:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewaterjump

This next image was taken a couple of minutes later with the sun a bit
higher and I had moved downhill a touch to catch the sun between the
buildings and trees.  What you are seeing is water from a mist machine not
grain:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreeflagmist

Some folk were in real need of a little cool water by this time in the race:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreereallytired

These folk are the reason I shoot from this location.  Most of the time they
are really entertaining; I don't know how much encouragement they provide to
the runners:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreefurbus

Last, the promised actual runners.  These women were probably ten minutes
behind the front running Kenyans but were still making a pretty good clip up
the hill.

Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again (Don Dory)

Enjoy, C & C, or tell me that they are boring and meet the unoriginal,
uninspired, technically crappy. :)

Don
don.dory@gmail.colm


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