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Subject: [Leica] A cold day in March....14 years ago
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Mar 13 18:08:18 2007
References: <45F7568D.10201@mcclary.net>

Harrison,
I was coming back from Florida that day.  Quite interesting to go from 70F
and sun to idiots in their four wheel drive doing donuts on the interstate.
Very good recovery on those images.


On 3/13/07, Harrison McClary <lists@mcclary.net> wrote:
>
> On this day in 1993 I had 8 or 9 inches of snow in my backyard in
> Lawrenceville, GA.  I was working for UPI back then.  Here is a link to
> the photos I transmitted that day:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32937339
> http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/32937340
>
> I think they were shot with a Leica R4.  I know the TriX was developed
> in Dektol for 30 seconds, no agitation and printed on a "LUCKY"
> enlarger.  I transmitted this with an old UPI drum spinner.  I shot
> color negs first but my chems were bad and they did not turn out so I
> went out to re-shoot.  All I had to develop the B&W was the dektol, so I
> used it for both the film and the prints.  I did not get as good of
> shots the second time out, the bad color roll had a great shot of my
> neighbor skiing down the road and it was still snowing a little.  By the
> time I had souped the film and seen it was bad it was done snowing and
> he had put his skis up.
>
> Anyway, after a March day in the 80's I thought it may be interesting to
> remember another March day where the wind chill was something like -50.
>
> --
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Don
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