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Subject: [Leica] Contrast in the trees
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Apr 24 11:32:29 2008
References: <480F162B.30900@hemenway.com> <608927E7-3B50-48DD-AB4E-2CB2E74B2E16@comcast.net>

Hi Richard:

The lighting was similar to today's, so the red filter helped make that 
contrast.

All those buds that have popped out in the last few days would have made 
for a very different photo.

Jim


Richard Taylor wrote:

> Jim - Having lived here for more than 40 years now, I think I know  
> Boston's Metro West pretty well but you're always pointing out things  I 
> haven't seen.  Thanks for the tour.  Nice pix, too.  I particularly  
> like the one of the stone bridge for its simplicity and the stark  
> contrast of form between the stone work and the bare trees.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> 
>> Shot a week ago with my Rollei:
>>
>> <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-6008i-RedFilter-TriX-04162000/>
>>
>> The Case estate is in the process of being purchased from Harvard  
>> University by the town of Weston.  The wall shown is reputedly the  
>> tallest and thickest stone wall in Massachusetts. Ten feet tall and  
>> six feet thick.
>>
>> The Old Stone Bridge is ancient by US standards and straddles the  
>> Sudbury river.  That's Sudbury on the right bank and Framingham on  
>> the left. The bridge's distinction is that it was used by General  
>> Knox when he moved the cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga to  
>> Dorchester Heights, just before the Americans scared those pesky  
>> British Lobsterbacks out of Boston on March 17, 1776.
>>
>> I don't think there have been any additions to that graveyard in  
>> living memory.
>>
>> Same day with the Pentax K10D:
>> <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-K10D-04162008/>
>>
>> The Old Dozer is "imprisoned" within a small forest but can seen  from 
>> the road now because the trees haven't "leafed out yet". I've  
>> probably driven by it dozens of times.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Metrowest - Along the Sudbury River)
Message from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor) ([Leica] Metrowest - Along the Sudbury River)