[Leica] B. D. PAW

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Because I'm a photographer, Philippe, not a Photoshop artiste. ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Orlent
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:36 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] B. D. PAW


Why not a duotone with some blue?


> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:12:08 -0500
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] B. D. PAW
> 
> Oh, posting a new photo every week is just so pass?...:-) So I've 
> added a black and white version of last week's better shot. So color? 
> Or black and white? 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Kit1_bw
> 
> Fire away...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Jim Hemenway
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:08 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05
> 
> 
> Dave:
> 
> There's several good portraits there, I like 028, 034 and 283 the 
> most... except for the third face w/o a nose in the background.
> 
> Jim
> 
> David Mason wrote:
> 
>> [sorry, long paragraph to get to me sharing some photos]
>> 
>> I was in Chicago briefly this weekend and took the opportunity to 
>> wander over to the protest against American presence in Iraq. For you

>> neo-con-death-cult-members you will be happy to hear that the 
>> turn-out
> 
>> was about 200 or 300 people to about 2000 police officers. For what 
>> its worth, I think protests are a waste of time as they are so 
>> overplayed and tend to evolve into unfocussed bitching about some 
>> supposed 'enemy' . However, we all know they can present interesting 
>> photo practice as well. As I was thinking about how I don't like 
>> protests I was also thinking about how I generally don't like protest

>> photos as they tend to be just like those photos that are termed 
>> "street photography" but are really just blurred shots of people 
>> moving. So in my attendence to this event I decided that I would try 
>> to ask permission to take people's photographs as much as possible 
>> (unless I saw something great that needed a quick shot). Most of 
>> these
> 
>> shots are taken with the permission of the subjects and I was 
>> interested in how some of them look candid despite that. My attempt, 
>> which I think I only scratched the surface of, was to show the 
>> variety
> 
>> of good people who do oppose the actions their government has taken. 
>> I
> 
>> was less interested in the people yelling at the cops although I did 
>> grab one or two of them too.
>> 
>> http://dmason.net/protest/
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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