Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 18, 2006, Peter Klein wrote: > Wow, Bob, that's about the best Mantis portrait I've ever seen. > Well done! > --Peter in response to a posting of mine - > > >> Seeing as how I'm working on a little project for an eye clinic here >> in town involving lotsa shots of non-human eyes... I present to you >> the following portrait of My Friend MANNNNTISSSSSSSAAAA!!!!! >> >> http://tinyurl.com/nnldn Peter - Thanks for the enthusiastic take on this snap; the idea of treating these kindof things as portraits is really something I stole from our own ever-admirable source... Y'know... there are modern types who would disdain the way we might project human qualities onto non-human subjects; me, I embrace it like all hell; just like a lot of other "discredited" "romantic" "old- school" ways of doing snaps that are actually kindof interesting to look at. Bob Palmieri