Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] Mr. B. D. Colen speaks
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 12:24:46 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Mr. B. D. Colen speaks

>...
>For as long as I can remember, even as a child, I was drawn to graphite, 
>etchings, engravings, silver points, black and white photographs, rich 
>monochrome or duo tone tonality - never >questioned why - just really 
>enjoyed looking at the variety of warm and/or cool blacks and deep earth 
>tones that come with charcoal and conte; selenium and sepia.
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Me too.  One of the books I treasured as a child (and still love) is Idylls 
of the King, with fantastic engravings by Gustave Dore.
And since I started out with a love of doing pen & ink drawings, B&W 
photography was a perfect transition.

I prefer B&W movies too.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA POY 1978
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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