[LRflex] Re: china pictures

  • From: <holtzw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 7:06:11 -0700

Ted,

Thanks for the comments; you are kind.

Photography in China, for me, is good news and bad.  There are subjects 
everywhere but the lighting conditions can be very difficult.  I would love to 
ride your coat tails and see how you would handle the excessive contrast, soupy 
skies, etc...  As for color, yes.  To me China can be monotonously drab, gray 
in the winter and green in the summer.  So when you do see color it really 
stands out.

I think you should go to the Olympics.  I can understand your staffing peoples 
concerns but the Chinese respect age.  You would be treated very well.  You can 
see the Beijing Olympic facilities from my wife’s sister’s apartment.  Her 
daughter has worked on the Olympics PR staff for several years.  If there was 
ever an Olympic chance for us, this is it.  Unfortunately we are not in a 
position to make a China trip this year.  Wish I could offer you our room.

The pictures I posted were done through Yahoo SiteBuilder.  My daughter set it 
up for me; I just pay the monthly fees.  All I did was to create a html page, 
add a 1x1 table for each picture and set the border parameters, insert a 
picture into each table, arrange the tables on the page, and finally turn the 
background black.  It works for me as long as I don’t do too many pictures and 
keep it simple.

(To clarify for anyone who might not be familiar with Midwest humor, my final 
comment is tongue in check.)

I was surprised you didn’t comment on the last picture.  It shows my wife 
buying souvenirs.  I thought it followed your mantra of light, action, content, 
and catching the moment.  My wife’s favorite activity when we are in China is 
buying souvenirs.

Our best,

Bill

---- Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Bill Holtz showed:
> 
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LRflex] china pictures
> 
>  
> 
> >>>link to some China pictures: http://www.williamholtz.com/forum
> 
> most of the pictures are from the area of China hit by the recent earthquake
> - exclude the two from Beijing and Shanghai<<<<<
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Interesting all! Good rich colours. If I ever wanted to cover an Olympic
> games it is this year in China simply because its' going to be colour
> overwhelming everywhere. Unfortunately the staffing people considered me
> "Toooooooooo old" to do it, to some degree I have to agree! :-) 
> 
> But I'd liked to have given it a shot as a last hurrah! 
> 
>  
> 
> I particularly like your layout method when posting a number of pictures as
> you've done here. Clean and simple. Do you use a special software to
> assemble them in this fashion? And would it be available? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ted
> 

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