Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Matt Morgan showed and said: Subject: Re: [Leica] Brooklyn Bridge > Jeffery, it was around 10 years ago. > > It's one of my personal favourites. What I like about it is catching this > old guy, who sleeps rough and is sort of trapped in the area, looking at > a ship heading out to somewhere in the world. The more I look at it, the > more I get from it, as I can almost feel his melancholy. > > I was also interested in getting a shot of one of the world's most famous > landmarks, but from a different angle. We normally see the 'bright lights' > of Manhattan with the Brooklyn Bridge shot from the Brooklyn side. The > reality of the area then, was it was rough and full of shacks for the > homeless, belying the image the bridge usually projects. > > BTW, it was shot on a colour transparency, but screamed out to be B&W, so > I had a B&W neg made from it then. > > With that 'old-look'. I also like the first image of the Manhattan skyline > from a bus in New Jersey because it seems like a 1930's or 40s postcard > shot. Hi Matt, This is an ageless photograph, particularly since you changed it into B&W! As you say: >>it seems like a 1930's or 40s postcard shot.<<< It does as it looks like an old shot out of LIFE magazine kind of shot. ted