Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 11:46 AM, Steve LeHuray wrote: >> The local arsonist was at work last week about a half-mile from my >> house. I walked up the PO with a couple of Ms and banged through five >> rolls of film. I've just begun the scanning, but these are a couple of >> images that strike me: >> >> http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/New/fire0026.htm > > This shot does not work for me. There is nothing to connect the fireman > at > the back of the building to a fire, he is sort of out of place in what > is a > tranquill looking building sitting beside a corn field. how strange, i had exactly the opposite reaction. i love the formality of the framing, broken by the somewhat mysterious fireman on the righthand side. the building is so dominant, so foreceful, that it gives the fireman almost an ironic connotation, a level of whimsy not usually seen in photos of firemen at work. the smoke, it seems, connects him obviously to a fire. - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." --Calvin and Hobbes "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen not only cares about America, he is America, and what's even better, he understands just how fucked up it is and has always been to be an American, the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world. --Joey Sweeney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html