[LRflex] Re: IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle lenses
- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:52:01 -0700
Hi Douglas,
I liked your Tower of Pisa photo very much because it brought back fun
memories of my assignment to cover the UN troops ordered out of Egypt before
the 1967
?6 Day war? started. The military base at Pisa was the stop over for planes
loaded with troops who were then transferred to planes returning them to
their mother countries.
In any event a Canadian military PR photog, a Captain and myself flew to
Pisa to cover the arrival of Canadian UN troops as a stop over changing
planes for the flight home to Canada. Your view of the Leaning Tower appears
to have been we were across the street? Boulevard? Sitting out side drinking
beer, a bite to eat and obviously enjoying the great parade of ?Seniorities?
going by. That didn?t last long as soon as the first troop planes arrived
from the desert and we were the only ?media related? people around. So it
gave us much ?private informal conversations? with fresh troops right out of
the Sinai. My good fortune was being the only media photog there.
Given the soldiers were told not to talk to the media, they did as asked.
But simple questions received all kinds of off the cuff information as I
shot pictures of the guys lying about for the next plane. When I had enough
new ?stuff? I?d disappear around the corner of a hanger write my notes and
captions for the film. Bagged them and return for another go. Sneaky devil!
:-)
One may say a kind of ?scoop? :-) Finally the big jet arrived to take a
full load. So I asked the Captain of the plane if he wouldn?t mind taking my
bag of film and notes to Canada as a rep from the Magazine would be at
Trenton airbase to pick-it up. ?Sure says he with a smile and that?s how I
made my first real scoop.?
The next day I was in Tel Aviv and had a couple of quiet days until Monday
morning and the sirens alerted everyone the ?WAR WAS ON!? I?d been trained
as an officer in the Canadian Armoured Corp so I was ?some what? prepared
for a war scene. Or so I thought. How little was I prepared! :-( :-( That
was until we got out of the city and into the Sinai with the dead bodies
lying about along with all the destroyed Egyptian equipment. . Well that?s
another story for another day of the 6.
The one thing I?ve always kept in mind. If you are going to photograph your
first war go with the Israelis, it starts and it?s over in 6 days and yer on
your way home on the seventh! :-)
Thanks for the Leaning Tower. Oh and the beer was excellent! :-)
Cheers,
Dr. ted
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[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William B. Abbott III
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Subject: [LRflex] Re: IMG: Street photography - Italy with CV wideangle
lenses
Douglas,
I have been trying to figure out why your Pisa pictures seem so
"different" from the usual b&w's and I have no answer, but they seem
to glow in a different way. A couple of the Milan pictures hit me that
way too.
Perhaps it was what you just said, about their early morning origin,
because it seems like the almost horizontal angle of the sun and
shadowless foregrounds are what my eye is responding to. Whatever the
cause, they really caught my eye as something different and stand out
in the crowd.
Thanks for making them.
All the best,
Bill
On Mar 28, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> actually, a lot of the work had already been completed below ground
> level by a German company that usually does contracts for preventing
> damage from mining subsidence.
>
> It was a chance not to be missed - around 6:30 on a cool and sunny
> morning at the end of April, a long walk before breakfast before an
> all-day conference about the use of geophysical surveys and advanced
> data processing for locating geothermal hotspots for power
> generation in Tuscany.
>
> Pisa is almost deserted at that time in the morning - not a tourist
> in sight.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> Philippe AMARD wrote:
>>
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/1Image4-1_edited
-1-Edit-2.jpg.html
>>
>> This one shows the date I guess - they must have finished
>> restauring it by now - and also that the works were not so much
>> needed ;-)
>>
>> Very nice series Douglas - makes me long for Italy, and
>> particularly the beautiful light of Tuscany.
>>
>> Thanks for rekindling fond memories.
>> Amitiés from Hannover-weathered Metz.
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I generally stick to things like steam trains and flowers and
>>> leave street photography to experts like Lluis.
>>>
>>> But, today it's snowing again, so I took some time to process some
>>> old slides (2003) that had terrible colour casts (either old
>>> stock,bad developing or X-ray machines in Italian airports) and
>>> decided to use almost every possible option in Lightroom 2.3 and
>>> convert them to BW in PS.
>>>
>>> Hope you like them. Comments and critique more than welcome.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/
>>>
>>> There's even one with a Signorina :-)
>>>
>>>
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Italy/1Image15-3-Edit.
jpg.html
>>>
>>> Technical details: Leica M6 and Minolta CLE + CV 12 and 15 mm
>>> lenses, shot on Fuji film.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
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