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Subject: [Leica] Kate Kirkwood and Leica Liker
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 20:33:56 +0000
References: <3C7C1E17863F40FDADE813353D37207E@Equibox> <CCBE8A60.25B9D%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I would be inclined to say that you have mixed two people up, 'Leica Liker' 
has all the sites you list below but is not called Kate Kirkwood

One lives in LA and the other in the Lake District, UK.....

http://www.katekirkwood.com

john

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To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Kate Kirkwood and Leica Liker

Its everything about Leica she owns an M9 but her camera bag has Nikon D60, 
with Nikkor 18-55 mm lens and 8 gb card In it. And a point and shoot. Which 
she uses on her farm but in her street shots she has them in other galleries 
on other sites and they are taken with her M9 for sure.

Under "ABOUT"
It says:
In 2011, I got the photo bug again when my husband, O, dropped a Leica M9 in 
my lap. It was a gift I could not refuse. The camera said, ?Street, shoot 
the streets!? So in August 2011 I began my odyssey into the world of street 
photography. It?s a passion that now fills my hard drives with an occasional 
worthy image to look at.

The first picture I clicked in he flicker URL says:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanglee
This photo was taken on March 11, 2012 using a Leica Camera AG M9.

That's funny I thought by the micro contrast it was taken with a nikon kit 
lens.
http://500px.com/photo/7820179
On this website her first pic I see says:
Leica Camera AG M9 Digital Camera
Focal Length 35mm
Shutter Speed 1/500 sec
Aperture f/16
ISO/Film 400
Category Street

Her third website she has listed is
http://www.wanderinglulu.com/
This website was made before she launched her main website:
http://www.leicaliker.com
Perhaps it was made before she got her M9?
Regardless I'm going going to claim I can tell from a jpeg a few hundred pix 
wide that it was done with Leica glass or not.
It appears she is  implying she's not going to be posting in wandering lulu 
as of march as she's gone Leica.

Here is a picture of her with her Nikon Nikon.
http://www.katekirkwood.com/#/about-me

Me if I had an M9 in my closet it won't be in my closet.
It would never see my closet.
It would never even know I had a closet. I'd be out shooting with it every 
day.  Id bring it to the movies I'd bring it to the bathroom. But hope to 
get as soon as possible the Digital M with no number at the end of it.

So Leica Liker does not have her Leica shots in her Leica Liker site.
She has them in her flickr and her 500 Px Leica liker photos website.

She seems to like Leica as a street town camera not a chicken and cow on the 
farm camera. She's too relaxed on the farm for the rangefinder. I think her 
work is brilliant and its not the end of the world she doesn't use the M on 
her farm. As far as I go she's off the hook.
But its a spacey organizing of pix having Nikon Nikon on the Like a Leica 
site.


Mark William Rabiner



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