Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/14

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Subject: [Leica] IMG:Mixed Bag
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:14:52 -0500
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Nice images, Alan.  Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of the 1950s when I made 
a wooden "focuslide" back for an old 5x7 view camera, and used my Leica IIIa 
body to take eclipse photos.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:53 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG:Mixed Bag


> Here are some more with the homemade 4x5 camera:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/DTrees_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/DTrunk_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/ChemProf_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/PeterBike_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> A shot from my cycle journey to the Isle of Man:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Travel/VFR_IoM_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> And a favorite from a local horticultural conservatory:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/KidLook_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> The look grabbed me, but I love the geometry and all the repeated curves 
> in this picture:
> the wrinkles around the man's eyes, and on his sleeve, his forearms, the 
> Gothic arch plants
> (the lines of which connect the ears of father and son); and best of all, 
> the hidden "face" in the plants.
> I didn't notice this, (three faces in a straight line) until I made the 
> print.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
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