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Subject: [Leica] travel photos of places i've never been
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:39:33 -0500
References: <9F07836ED74F1C42AA69DFBAF8A1E2F1199DA51B3F@MBX1.asc.local>

Quite a collection, Kyle.  There are a few "keepers" in there.  Thanks for 
sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:24 PM
Subject: [Leica] travel photos of places i've never been


> My new photography project:
>
> http://inthehive.org
>
> On June 11th I was looking at some photographs by [insert name of a famous 
> photographer who I won't name but you can probably figure out] thinking 
> Did he really mean to take this photo? Does this guy's camera go off at 
> random? and I started wondering what the photos would be like if someone 
> just carried around a camera that captured an image at random. And of 
> course, I then thought why not find out? I put up a cryptic call for 
> volunteers and got 23 people I'd never met from all across the U.S. and 
> Canada who agreed to wear cameras around their necks for two days. Over 
> the weekend of June 13th and 14th I sent eleven SMS text messages at 
> random times to everybody in the group and they pressed the shutter 
> buttons on their camera, photographing whatever happened to be in front of 
> them at that moment.
>
> I "took" 266 photographs that way, 83 of which are in the gallery.
>
> No Leica's were harmed during the photography.
>
> Kc
>
>
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