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Subject: [Leica] Gandhi with Flowers II
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:31:49 +0530
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Mark,
Here is a starting point for you:

http://www.mkgandhi.org/main.htm

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> I have very strong feelings about what a great man Gandhi was.
> A great man of great man. I plan on reading a big fat book about him.
>
> --
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>
> > From: Kevin Argue <kargue at sympatico.ca>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:45:15 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Gandhi with Flowers II
> >
> > I once sat in Tavistock  Square in London with my M4P photographing
> > people coming up to the statue
> > of Gandhi. Some stood and bowed their head, some placed flowers, some
> > got on their knees and some
> > didn't care at all!
> >
> > Kevin Argue
> > Canada
> >
> >
> >
> > On 20-Aug-11, at 5:34 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >
> >> I think what makes the picture is the fact that whoever put just
> >> the right
> >> flowers in his hand and the effect that has is really something.
> >> My angle on it I guess is good but you're right the main thing is
> >> the thing
> >> itself. Though anytime someone points his camera at something,
> >> decides to
> >> process it and upload it to a gallery to show their friends or
> >> audience they
> >> get that credit for having made those decisions.  I think often
> >> that's all
> >> photography is about. I could have uploaded flowers in a window
> >> again. I got
> >> some good ones this week.
> >> I like the flowers with Gandhi and the statement that made more.
> >> Though
> >> first I uploaded the wrong shot of that.
> >> --
> >> Mark R.
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>
> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:48:10 +0900
> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Subject: [Leica] Gandhi with Flowers II
> >>>
> >>> Really good photograph, Mark!
> >>>
> >>> Often a photo of a statue is a photo of a work of art, and it is rare
> >>> to see the photographer produce something artistic vis-a-vis the
> >>> statue.
> >>>
> >>> Did you lighten the area surrounding Gandhi?  The statue really
> >>> "stands" out.
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >>>
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