[Leica] The Pope visit in Barcelona

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Lluis Ripoll  showed:
Subject: [Leica] The Pope visit in Barcelona


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Bon jour Lluis mon ami,

The LIGHT! The  LIGHT! :-) And in B&W! A clean wonderful set of photographs 
of the people behind the scenes where the content has far greater impact at 
times, instead of the Pontiff himself as we usually see during a visit.

A few photos when people are looking at the camera or are aware you are 
taking their picture, I'd cut! These few take away from the strength of the 
candid moment of the others.

It's the behind scenes rarely seen when it's the Pope! Usually everyone 
attempts to photograph the Pope! Which is almost an impossiblity to get 
clean and interesting images unless you have PRESS credentials allowing you 
special access for better positions to shoot from.

It's your ability to see behind the scenes moments, where quite frankly, 
there are far more interesting pictures than always fighting the crowds for 
a mili-second glimpse of the passing Pope surronded by security officers.
Well done mon ami, well done. :-)

cheers,
ted