Leica M photographs of Steelville, Missouri by William Albert Allard in the new National Geographic.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/programs/splat/cgi-bin/splat.pl?URL_TRANSLATE=%2Fngm%2Fdata%2F2001%2F11%2F01%2Fhtml%2Fzm_20011101.7.1.html&DB_USER=splat_ngm&DB_PASS=splat_ngm&DB_NUM_PARAMS=3&TEMPLATE_NAME=/ngm/templates/output/zoom.tmpl&DB_PARAM_0=20011101&DB_PARAM_1=7&DB_PARAM_2=1

-- David Enzel (dhenzel@vei.net), October 20, 2001

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David,

You reckon these will cause a stir on the LEG like the last set did? It got so thick, I cancelled my subscription!

-- Dave Doyle (soilsouth@home.com), October 20, 2001.

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-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), October 20, 2001.

Great pictures.I sure want to know his available light with strobe fill technic,never wash out,always blend in together.You can't even tell he used flash.

-- raymond teng (rteng@yahoo.com), October 20, 2001.

Well, they're better than the Vincent Musi effort last time, but not by much. There seems to be a new laziness at NG - just slap on a wide angle lens and point it in the general direction of the subjects. Composition, framing... what? These guys used to be so good at this sort of thing. (Sigh...)

-- Andrew Nemeth (azn@nemeng.com), October 20, 2001.

What stir was that? I always found the LEG to be particularly agressive and bumptious, cancelled ages ago (and I'm sure I'm not missed either!). As for the LUG, these days I just read the archives, much more relaxing.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), October 21, 2001.

Probably used some orange gels over the flash and tweaked it in at -2 f stops or something...

-- Tristan (tristan@tristantom.com), October 21, 2001.

...You reckon these will cause a stir on the LEG like the last set did? It got so thick, I cancelled my subscription!

I'm obviously out of touch here, what stir was that?

I too bailed on the LUG, I think you have to be born cranky to play there.

-- jeff voorhees (debontekou@yahoo.com), October 25, 2001.

How do we know these photos were shot with a Leica? Bill Allard also uses Canon SLR's. I realize that he calls his Leicas his "whorehouse and chapel" cameras...but we can't assume he used them for these shots even though they would be perfect for them.

-- Todd Phillips (toddvphillips@webtv.net), November 05, 2001.

Todd--

Don't have to assume anything...The pictures are captioned as having been shot with an M6.

-- Douglas Kinnear (douglas.kinnear@colostate.edu), November 05, 2001.