Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:28 PM +0000 11/3/99, Johnny Deadman wrote: >Any street with life on it will do. Often the picturesque streets are the >least interesting. Wrinkled old men, sunbaked doorways, bah! Give me a bit >of sixties brutalism and nineties ennui anyday. > >I used to think that street photography in London was impossible, because >there was no street life, but over the last 10 years that has changed... it >has become a much more street oriented city. Bill Klein, Frank, Bresson, >Meyerowitz, they all came to London and struggled to find pictures. I think >they'd have a ball now. It's stopped looking like a postcard of itself. It >kind of looks like a postcard of the future to me. I was out today in Vancouver. Street photography took on the winter meaning here. Some rain; overcast you might say. 1/60sec at 1/4 with 400ISO film in the brighter parts at around 1:30pm. One of those times you might want some fast glass. Even Mike Johnston could find a use for it here, I'm sure :-) * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com