Gary,
Congratulations! Good composition! it gives calm and relaxing feel.
C.H.Ling
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Reese <pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:16 PM
Subject: [OM] Contest Grand Prize
>I've just learned that I was selected as the Grand Prize winner for all
>catagories in the Maricopa County (Arizona) Parks and Recreation
>Department Photo Contest. They have the largest acreage of parks of any
>USA county. Hum, just when I was thinking that one had to make repeat
>visits to their favorite photo spots to get a decent landscape shot.
>This one, if anyone cares to take a peek at:
>http://members.aol.com/olympusom/MaricopaContestWWW.jpg
>came about when Susie said "I'd love a picture of a flowering Saguaro
>with water." "Oh right," I said aloud, as we were driving the hot and
>dry Carefree Highway north of Phoenix, late in the morning one day in
>the first week of May. But at the junction of the west road into Lake
>Pleasant Regional Park, we saw the first flowing Saguaro of the season.
>So we took the road in and ended up at the visitor center, on an
>overlook atop a hill. I spotted what seemed a promising composition -
>with water and a flowering Saguaro! - so I headed off down slope.
>
>Unfortunately, I left the Zuikos behind and just carried a Leica Z2X. At
>least I had a extra roll of film in my pocket, because when I composed
>this shot, I had the last two frames of 400 speed Kodak Gold in the
>camera. Not too good a choice. This particular pix was the first on a
>roll of Fujicolor Super HG 100, shot at 70mm with the mode set to
>infinity. Susie had caught up with me just when the sailboats came into
>position and got to share in the excitement.
>
>It isn't really my shot alone. It took my muse to see it. It isn't the
>first time I got talked into seeing stuff I would have looked for if it
>was just me.
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
>
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