[Leica] Jazz Shoot Terminus

[Bruce Feist <bfeist@flock.org>]

Hi, Marc;

I wouldn't panic; rely on your own feelings rather than hers.  I don't know your
personal situation, but ex-wives tend to have other issues; this sounds to me like
an emotional response triggered by something other than the photos themselves.  You
yourself said that she zoomed in on the worst ones of the lot, ignoring the others!
Also, your use of the phrase 'forced her way' suggests that she might not have been
in a positive frame of mind.

In short, I don't believe that this is about your photos at all.

Bruce

You wrote:

> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:51:14 -0500
> Subject: [Leica] Jazz Shoot Terminus
>
> Alas, but I believe I have hit my end on this project.  I sweated blood for
> some weeks, shot a bunch of negatives, and printed them.  I had the
> selection of what I saw as the best at hand this evening to show the band
> leader.
>
> My ex-wife forced her way by my office, early, and flipped through the
> stack. Ignoring the good pictures, she flipped up the ones I had printed
> solely to show that I needed another shoot with this vocalist -- my most
> difficult subject, one who fussed every time I turned her way, to tell the
> band leader she did NOT want pictures shot!
>
> My ex-wife simply sneered and snapped, "I know her.  She is a LOT prettier
> than that."  I asked, "what of the other pictures?"  And she said, "dull.
> They didn't catch my attention."