Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm looking forward to your story. Ric On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Bill Clough wrote: > USA > TEXAS > CORPUS CHRISTI > 20 March 2006 > > HI there-- > > Instead of PAWing this year, I have another project. > > I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had > a vague idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle > and the adjacent areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce > Panhandle, but >my< Panhandle, where I grew up. It's cowboy > country--a land, then, at the end of the Dust Bowl. We still had > black dusters then, and cold fronts with sustained winds of 75 mph. > When they blew through telephone lines along the Santa Fe tracks > the sound was pure Gregorian. I stayed with the same theme for more > than 15 years and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant I would > gladly spend an entire year trying to capture that area's many > moods. Its beauty isn't like that of Colorado, for instance. It > doesn't jump out at you; you have to find it. But it's there...some > of it, anyway. For the next 74 days, I hope to post one photo a day > of this essay. Sadly, most of the subjects are gone. I search for > landmarks and cannot find them. Now, they are only here. > > --Bill Clough > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/Dusty+Sunset > +0070+Feb+1962.jpg.html > > > Panhandle Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/ > > Complete Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/ > > > -- > Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually fail. > Make backups or lose your work. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information