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Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon Jul 10 16:47:20 2006
References: <9b678e0607091810wdda64a1m1d879c2b33e348e4@mail.gmail.com> <07A0BD58-5CCC-4180-9905-B86E3C9B5801@mindspring.com>

Ric,
There were some posts last week with similar color monochrome that I liked
so tried to replicate for this week to greater or lessor success.

Thanks for looking.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 7/9/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I really like the near monochrome look.
>
> The mist stuff is also fine.
>
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
>
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Don Dory wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album462/peachtreewoman20
> >
> > 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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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again)
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Don's PAW 27 Peachtree Road Race once again)