[Leica] childhood...

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Steve Barbour said & showed:
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] childhood...
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> On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Jim Brick wrote:
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>> Great photo, but Ted is correct! And that moves the girl to the left
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>> in the frame which adds greatly to the feeling of the moment.
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> Steve offered:
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> now, here is the crop...
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> I like it very much...it feels like a different image...
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/crop.jpg.html
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> now for an incredible moment of  confession, the image was taken forty
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> (40) years ago,   I have had it in my minds eye, only with the bird,
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> it is hard to see it any other way. now I have to live with it for  
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> forty years this way...
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> thank you gentlemen both so much,<<<<<<<<<<<<,
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> Hi Steve,
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> I think this is a simple case of "we are our own worst editors"  
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> when we get a fixed image in our minds eye! Trust me you are not  
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> This cropped version is so beautiful in capturing a child's moment of
> discovery, it's wonderful. Absolutely no question, the bird was such a
> distraction it was killing this beautiful moment. Our eyes were  
> flying off
> the page without seeing the child's expression.
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> Anyway I'm very glad you could see the error in the original. Trust  
> me it is
> not easy to concede a 40 year feeling of how a picture should look  
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> because you've never seen it might be better.
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> In your early days I'd bet the thought was.. "Oh gee look how neat  
> that is!
> I caught that bird in flight!" Now the bird is gone you have a  
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> child moment of observation and learning. Good on you.


thanks Ted,...in the original print ...dated 1970, the child's face is  
darker, and yes, the magic of the bird swooping through was a wow  
moment ! so it affected the nature of the moment, it's like two  
different images/statements/feelings, side by side,

Steve
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> Cheers,
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> ted
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