[Leica] IMG: Alton Brown stole my camera and I have the images toprove it

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

A fun series and a nice connection with an obviously interesting guy. Shame
you couldn't keep that odd hippie looking dude out of the shots.
As to Alton's last statement:

"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic
image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own
inherent and inescapable structural characteristics and the artist and
functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them".

'The negative' Ansel Adams circa 1981

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Alton Brown stole my camera and I have the images
toprove it

Okay, not really. 

My wife and I walked down to the local bookstore(a real local store, not the
B&N) today to see Alton Brown (Good Eats and Iron Chef TV Host). He was
signing his new book "Feasting on Asphalt", which follows the story of the
TV series of the same name that Alton did last year. They started in New
Orleans and went up North along the Mississippi River on motorcycles looking
for local recipes and food.

We noticed he was taking photos with everyone so it seemed no problem to get
some shots with him when it was our turn. So we get up there, extremely nice
guy, signs the books and one of the assistants says she would take a photo
with my camera so we both can be in the shot. Well, keep in mind I have my
D3 with 28-70/2.8 with me, but she says no problem. I put the camera on AF-C
and high speed 11fps just to make sure she will get the shot for us.

Click,click,click,click,click,click,click.............. she's nailing it!
Alton starts to laugh at how large and fast the camera is. So he starts to
shoot self portraits with it! This is just too hilarious! I make sure I
sneak in a few frames with my ugly mug. 

So here's a slideshow of today, complete with Alton's self portraits.

www.zoeicaimages.com/AltonBrownNOLA

As we're leaving he tells me Ansel would not approve of that type of
photography.


Chris
NOLA




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