[Leica] IMG: Cotton Candy Clouds

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:56 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:

>>> 
>>> Still checking out legacy lenses.  This image of momentary cloud 
>>> formations was made with my Leica LTM Summaron 35/3.5 on the Fuji X-E1.
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cotton+Candy+Clouds.jpg.html
> 
> Hi George,
> Now that's a beauty!  A number of years ago in a Montreal book store I saw 
> a hard cover coffee table book entitled...." CLOUDS." It was a beauty! 
> They also wanted a fortune to buy it. My thought at the time?
> 
> "If I want a book of clouds? I'll shoot them myself as that's easy!" :-) 
> YEAH RIGHT? :-(
> It's never happened! Yep, shot any number on the spur of the moment but 
> never went at it to produce a book. :-(
> 
> Your spectacular "Cotton Candy Clouds" is a motivator for having ago at 
> clouds as we have some wild and crazy ones build-up along the west coast 
> of Vancouver Island. Be an incentive to get my butt out the door and make 
> it fun instead of an "exercise chore :-(" But gone easy! :-)
> cheers,

Just for clarity Ted
that was Jim Nichols' photograph
and
I agree with everything you said ;~)

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George Lottermoser 
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