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Subject: [Leica] recrop: [WAS Re: BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors]
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:26:34 +0200
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I prefer the original version.

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Nathan

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On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Well, the value of judging in these contests has always been suspect  
> to me.  It seems to lead to conformity, IMHO.  But that said, I  
> cropped out the rocks.  The result is here:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199_crop.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/l3ltkf
>
> The cropped version certainly emphasizes the anticipated crash, but  
> to my mind loses the piece of information that they are both in a  
> very narrow channel.
>
> It'd be interesting to hear what others think.  Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On Aug 05, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Philip Price wrote:
>
>> Hi Dick, I belong to a photographic society here, ( UK ) and we  
>> have monthly competitions which are always keenly contested, our  
>> regular club membership is 70 /80 members. I regularly enter  
>> prints, with it must be said varying degrees of success ! Over the  
>> years I have learnt to anticipate what the judge will like or not  
>> like, believe me some of them can be pretty ferocious with their  
>> comments ! I do love the drama in your shot but I know the judge in  
>> a competition would probaly comment on those rocks.
>>
>> As an amateur though I listen, and then go out and do the same  
>> thing again, after all its for my pleasure not some judge who is  
>> definitely not on my Christmas card list !!!
>>
>> Happy snapping Phil.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:29:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>>
>> Well, that's interesting.  I had thought that the rocks and distant  
>> shore added to the drama by emphasizing the narrowness of the  
>> channel in which all this drama was occurring.
>>
>> Thanks for commenting.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 05, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Philip Price wrote:
>>
>>> Lots of drama, and movement in the shot, just a pity about the  
>>> rocks in the bottom right forground.
>>> Regards
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 6:56:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Powerboaters Hate Sailors
>>>
>>> ACK
>>>
>>> NICE
>>>
>>> ric
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> We almost never race through Woods Hole Passage on the Weekends.   
>>>> The powerboat traffic is just too thick and the current usually  
>>>> too strong..  Three Sundays ago, though, the wind was too strong  
>>>> to race in the Bay or the Sound.  So, since the current in the  
>>>> Hole was nearly slack at race time and the boat traffic was  
>>>> nearly nil, we did, only to run into an entirely different  
>>>> obstacle:
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4199.jpg.html
>>>> or
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/klkd3w
>>>>
>>>> Ever practical, we just raced around them.
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4230.jpg.html
>>>> or
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/mycc4q
>>>>
>>>> D300, etc.
>>>>
>>>> C&C fervently desired.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Dick
>>>>
>>>>
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