Thanks, Dave! I had a very good day and a half of shooting in St. Louis--my time was my own, the weather was great, and the city is attractive and under-photographed.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 12/8/08, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PESO: The Old Courthouse > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:33 PM > The three are just great Rick. I like the framing in the > first, good > shadow detail in the second, and the wavy reflection works > well. > > Dave > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Rick Womer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few hundred meters from the Gateway Arch is another > St. Louis landmark, the Old Courthouse. Its main (dubious) > claim to fame is the Dred Scott case of the 1840s, in which > a slave sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had been > for a time in a free state. He lost in the US Supreme Court > in 1846. > > > > I found it very poignant that Barack Obama held a > 100,000-person rally in October whose backdrops were the > Arch and the Old Courthouse. > > > > A view with the Arch: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317493 > > > > Close-up: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317490 > > > > Reflected: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317486 > > > > All taken with the K10D and DA 50-200, ISO 200, > handheld, RAW via LR2. > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

