My Niagara Falls

[Dr. No]

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inspired by Doc Henry, I'm posting my pictures of Niagara Falls,

taken with Leica M6, Summicron 35mm and 90mm, in the year 2000.

 

there I was talking to a photographer taken pictures with a screw mount Leica camera - was that after all you Doc Henry?

 

hope you all like my pictures, NO

 

 

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[Doc Henry]

Wow Dr no

Superb series specially the 3 and 4

Thanks for showing

[stuny]

Olaf –

 

Terrific series. Whenever I’m at the location of your first shot I suddenly realize I need to find a WC.

 

In about 1960 my father, a Carnegie trained electrical engineer, changed his consulting business to purely theater design work. Sometime in the 1970s the Canadian Government commissioned him to relight the Falls. Prior to that the Falls were lighted by 16 huge carbon arc lamps atop the Queen Victoria building, just behind you when you shot the first image. For the testing and proof of concept my father had a 10 kilowatt xenon lamp installed at the Queen Victoria building adjacent to the older lamps, along with a huge Klieg follow spot so that they could project shaped light (I cut a sheet of copper to project the shape of a maple leaf for the test, suing a Canadian penny as my model – I came along to do the photographic documentation). He also had another xenon lamp and generator mounted on a truck’s flatbed to be used upriver to backlight the plume of mist, and to be moved down into the gorge to front light the plume. Each xenon lamp was brighter than the 16 carbon arc lamps combined. The tests were successful, and they replaced the old lamps with 23 xenon lams, each with a color changer mounted up front, and they kept the Klieg light, too.

[chilihead]

Stuart Maclean, of CBC Radio, not long ago interviewed a man that about the age of seven, (in the 60's) was in a small dinghy that was carried downstream and with the boy in it went over Niagara falls!!! The boy lived and was rescued by the "Maid of the Mist" The story, narrated by Mr Maclean is, without a doubt one of the most riveting Radio broadcasts I have ever heard.

[Martin T-M]

No, yes I like it.

[psquared]

Olaf,

 

Excellent pictures. I need to go there again. Last time was when the older son was one year old and the younger one was in utero, more than a decade ago.

 

Peter

[Dr. No]

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Dear Leica friends,

thanks for your nice comments,

yours OLAF

[muellerman779]

Hi Olaf,

wo Du überall warst...! Klasse Bildstrecke!! LG, Dirk

[turner]

Wonderful captures!

[pauledell]

Olaf,

 

Always wonderful to see these sites. I like the first two the most but they are all great.

 

Paul

[clinchico]

Wow Dr no

Superb series specially the 3 and 4

Thanks for showing

 

I second that,very nice.

Herb

[Dr. No]

thank you very much !

 

yours OLAF

[Bob Jackson]

Olaf, just sensational!