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Leland Torrence <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - Dwell time 5 minutes.
Date:
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:43:26 -0500
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I'd like a slide show.
Best,
Leland
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Follett <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: The heavy binocular


>In a message dated 3/1/99 9:51:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>writes:
>
>> How many images show us what people really see from the sidewalk?
>
>Though the Empire State can be difficult to recognize from sidewalk level,
you
>can be in a lot of places around NYC and recognize it. I make a practice of
>taking pictures of the Empire State & World Trade from the rooftops of all
the
>other buildings that I get to visit, framing the better known landmarks in
the
>water towers, cornices, parapets, and vertical walls of the urban
landscape.
>What I know best of NY is what you get from the rooftop of a 12 story
>building, not from the sidewalks. On the sidewalks you have people, and in
the
>streets you have vehicles. There are fewer people wandering around on the
>roofs and only the noise of the vehicles.
>
>][<en

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