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Subject: [OM] Fwd: Re: (OT) A little street shooting in Cambridge (MA)
From: Lawrence Woods <lmwoods@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:05:14 -0500 (EST)
Bob -

I was in Harvard Yard Monday night, and found the thing you 
photographed.  It is nowhere near the water pump.  I stand 
corrected, and you did indeed find the Harvard Monument to 
Manhood. 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun,  1 Feb 2009 12:02:32 -0500 (EST)
>From: Lawrence Woods <lmwoods@xxxxxxx>  
>Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) A little street shooting in Cambridge 
(MA)  
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> ... And then there was the completely unpublicized
>> yet-to-be-unveiled Harvard Monument to Manhood.
>
>If you had the lens pulled in to 24mm, and were very close to 
>an object actually about six feet high, what you were facing 
>was a replica of a water pump from the 1600's that was the 
>college's water supply.  The green fabric is its winter 
>protective coat. 
>
>In a far corner of Harvard Yard, in front of the Lamont 
>Library, there is a Henry Moore bronze sculpture in a similar 
>custom-tailored green covering.  I have often thought of 
>trying to take identical vantage point pictures of the 
>sculpture with and without its winter garb, but haven't done 
>so.
>
>Harvard Square in general is an easy place for street 
>phototgraphy.  People (mostly not Harvard Students) come to 
>see and be seen.  In her suburban high-school days, my 
>daughter was part of that scene.  Holding my breath must have 
>worked, because she got through the phase without tattoos, 
>piercings, or something worse.
>
>----- Larry Woods
>      lmwoods@xxxxxxx


----- Larry Woods
      lmwoods@xxxxxxx
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