Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/08

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photos - Ice Racing
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:29:43 -0500

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote:

>Well done on getting images in the circumstances with the 4x5! But the
standout of the 3 is the last one.
>I am surprised that the tires on the motorcycles are not more knobby than
they appear to be, given the surface on which they are racing.

>Cheers,
>Nathan
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Thanks, Nathan, Don, Jim, Ric, Douglas, and Lluis.

As I recall, the tires had nails put in them from inside for grip.  That
third picture was taken weeks after the others, when the spring thaw was
starting - thus the spray.

-- 
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/

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