Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/01

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Subject: [Leica] Golden Temple Again
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:33:06 +0530
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Thanks to everyone for commenting - I am glad that a photograph has elicited
a variety of opinions. I will have to think about all of them!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:35 AM, R. Clayton McKee <leica at rcmckee.com> 
wrote:

> > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj
> > <jayanand at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
>
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060021-Edit-EditSe
> > lCol.jpg.html
>
> I can handle the B&W; I'd like to see the full color version...
>
> But this treatment reminds me of far too many bad posters and
> "special mystical effect art pieces" that were popular in the 70's
> "new age" era.  I know the gold is the real color but it does not
> feel that way at all.
>
> It's our job to guide the viewers' eyes where we want them...
>
> but this doesn't feel like I've been guided.  It feels like my head's
> been grabbed by a gorilla, yanked into a specific position, and then
> welded in place while someone else wedges my eyelids open and a guard
> standing over me with a cattle prod demands that I focus on THIS
> THING... Or Else.
>
> It's not really my favorite experience.
>
>
> --
>
>
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In reply to: Message from montoid at earthlink.net (Montie Talbert) ([Leica] Golden Temple Again)
Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] Golden Temple Again)