[Leica] [img] snowpocalypse photo from the GF-1 - beautiful magic

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

Hey foks -
  Went out Wednesday during the snowpocalypse, with the GF-1 here's a shot 
during the storm:

http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/blizzard-1.jpg

the camera got a little wet but held up admirably. I have some $9 lens shade 
for it that says "LEICA SUMMICRON" in what looks like powdered sugar (I 
think it's the same font from the candy hearts), that did a decent job 
keeping snow off of the front lens element.

The scene itself was ... beautiful magic, really. It was quiet, there were 
people in the distance and who'd sometimes pass, but cars were absent, for 
the most part. People walked in the street - the quiet was strange, all the 
snow dampening sound, and, what really got me was the sky-glow from the city 
hitting the clouds, and bouncing back down to earth, only to reflect up 
again - it was like being inside a city-sized softbox.

The heavy snow on the trees made them all creep lower to the ground, making 
tunnels of tree where there'd been no tunnel before.

It was a wonderful, amazing, beautiful experience.

K