Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice memories.? I like the last one best, probably because I spent a lot of time in early wind tunnel control rooms. By the way, I still have both the 50 and 55mm Takumars.? I always felt that the 55 was a little sharper than the 50s. On 7/1/21 8:58 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote: > After more than a year of Covid concerns, my wife's medical problems, and > two house projects (new roof and basement waterproofing), I'm getting > back to my archive (at least what I have available at home). Here are four > early pictures that I like. > > There used to be scrap yards along the south portion of Milwaukee harbor, > before revitalization and beautification. I found this locomotive cab > dusted with > snow in January 1968. > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19680120_MR_Mine_16.jpg.html > The journalism building on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus was > demolished for a power plant driveway, but not before it sported protest > signs > put up by the students. As fate would have it, I never took a class in > there (or any journalism courses), being an Art History major; and with the > student newspaper > housed in a former frat house off campus, I entered only once, to > photograph a professor (Jay Sykes - the father of television commentator > Charlie Sykes). > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19690428_MR_POST_3.jpg.html > An office portrait of Perry Baer, a philosopher. > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19691016_MR_POST_25.jpg.html > > I found this chair facing a wall of gauges amusing. > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Seventies/19700903_MR_Mine_B021c_18.jpg.html > All can be viewed large. > -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA