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Subject: [Leica] Was What's in Your Camera Bag, Now OT Maxton Mile Land Speed Race
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:09:01 -0500
References: <257123.9784.qm@web114413.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

John,

Great story and great photos.  Thanks for sharing your weekend with us.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Edwin Mason" <profmason at yahoo.com>
To: "LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 7:36 PM
Subject: [Leica] Was What's in Your Camera Bag,Now OT Maxton Mile Land Speed 
Race


>> Charlotte Geary's bags (packed and unpacked) and see just how she
>> manages to cart a Whole Lotta Stuff around. If you're interested,
>> you can check it out here:
>> http://community.livejournal.com/photographers/16546343.html
>
> Makes you appreciate the Leica aesthetic -- the M aesthetic, that is.
>
> Spoken by someone whose editors do not appreciate that aesthetic, who 
> therefore spent the weekend humping two DSLRs, various lenses -- from very 
> short to very long -- plus flashes, batteries, cards, cables, etc., at not 
> one but two different races last weekend, and who is now very tired.
>
> Fortunately, one of the races, the Maxton Mile land speed race, more than 
> worth it. A real hoot.
>
> Where else are you going to find a '51 Crosley Super Sport (looks like a 
> Bugeye Sprite, only smaller), a '73 Citroen SM (on nitrous), a vintage 
> sprint car, a supercharged land speed roadster, an ex-Nascar Chevy, a 
> street-legal '94 Mitsubishi Evo II that runs 237.63 in the standing mile, 
> and a '72 Cadillac Eldorado (that doesn't run even half of 237.63) all on 
> the same track?
>
> See 'em here:
>
> http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/jem_racing_photography/
>
> --John
>
> ******************************
> John Edwin Mason, Photography:
> http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com
> Charlottesville and Cape Town
>
>
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