Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oliver, The first shot with the mailboxes is my favourite. Love the saturated colours and the subdued greens. Almost like kodachrome! Best wishes, Charlie Charlie Chan www.charlie-chan.co.uk On 6 Jun 2012, at 14:02, Bryk Oliver wrote: > Galilee Harbor is a houseboat community in Sausalito. > >> From the website of the Galilee Harbor Community Association, a >> member-run cooperative community composed of artists and marine workers: > > Residents of Galilee Harbor are actively employed in marine and artistic > occupations, including boat-building, boat repair, sail-making, marine > canvas work, creative writing, theater, painting, photography, and other > visual arts. Boat builders and their families have lived next to the Mono > Street Marsh in Sausalito since the 1800s when Italian fishing families > lived at the foot of Napa Street and built their traditional feluccas on > the beach. By the 1890s live-aboard barges served as vacation getaways for > wealthy San Franciscans. In 1906 the barges became full-time homes for San > Francisco residents displaced by the earthquake. In the 1940's Sausalito's > Marinship yard constructed merchant "Liberty" ships and tankers, employing > 70,000 workers. > > I posted a few pictures of today's Galilee Harbor at > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OBRYK/Galilee_Harbor/ . Leica M8, > Elmarit 24mm. > > Cs & Cs cheerfully considered. > > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information