Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Andrew Nemeth wrote: > 3. The people(?) in the shot are a little far away, no? IMO, > candid slice-of-life photography requires recognisable faces > at 4m or less. Yes this requires courage / gall / rudeness / > friendliness / whatever - which is why so few can do it, and > why so much 'street photography' is little more than shots > of peoples backs. I think we can get a bit hung up in definitions and miss the beauty in front of our eyes....I love it, Sonny - The greens and browns, the dappled sunlight, the curve of the ruts in the dirt/mud, and, oh yes, the hikers approaching in the distance...No, it's not yet another shot of a drooling homeless drunk lending "color" to the urban scene, it's not the 999,999th original shot of a few smokers huddled outside a building, and it's not even the 7,000,938th shot of a beautiful woman in a tight skirt/blouse being stared at by a couple large-gutted construction workers. But it's a photo that works for me - and I don't even like color, woods, or mud all that much...;-) B. D.