Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Geometry at the Art Museum
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:56:12 +0530
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A nice, unusual perspective!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:35 AM Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
wrote:

> Today I went to see the exhibition "Photographing Nature's Cathedrals -
> Pictures by Carleton E. Watkins, Edweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett" at
> the Milwaukee Art Museum.  These are stereo and 20" x 24" albumen prints
> from glass plate negatives of the Wisconsin River Dells (Bennett) and the
> Yosemite valley in the 19th Century.  The large prints are from the
> American Geographical Society Library collection (housed at my university)
> and I hadn't seen them since I helped make backup publicity copies in the
> 1980's.  They are magnificent.
>
> Anyway, on my way out I took this grab shot.  The mobile was moving and I
> only got one satisfying frame (the first).
>
> <
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/20180825_MR_MAM_5616.jpg.html
> >
>
> Fuji X-E2, 35mm Summicron. (the data says 50mm, but I keep forgetting to
> reset the focal length when I switch lenses)
> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
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