Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, These are very nice. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 09-Mar-2016, at 21:04, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > These are some that I took for me instead of for stock. Deja Vu here, > too?? > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159293969 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159430291 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159478126 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159568202 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159569590 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159892015 > > Tina > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You might well be right, I have never been to Cuba. Again, you might well >> sell stock, but I am not looking for stock when I look at a portfolio, I >> am >> looking for something more. It has been a few years since I have seen >> photographs taken there that do not give me a feeling of Deja Vu. I would >> like to visit sometime, but more for the music and culture, rather than >> the >> photography. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 09-Mar-2016, at 07:53, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: >>> >>> I loved Cuba and would go back anytime. I was taking photos to sell for >>> stock and photos for myself. I think you can tell the difference. The >>> stock ones are selling very well because everybody wants the cliche >> photos >>> that look like "Cuba". I think if you look far enough you'll find the >> real >>> people. >>> >>> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery/Cuba/G0000TudpsyJmsLU/ >>> >>> TIna >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at >>> gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Luis, >>>> IMHO, the most difficult assignments in photography are those that take >>>> you to iconic places or events, because it is so difficult to find >>>> something new to photograph and show, that has not been done a few >> million >>>> times before. Human interaction is certainly one way out, because of its >>>> innate unpredictability, but when an entire population gets used to >> posing >>>> in a certain way, and loses all spontaneity, it becomes repetitive as >>>> well. It is definitely is very true of tourist dependant cultures, like >> for >>>> example the Masai in East Africa, and I suspect, the Cubans as well. >>>> Cheers >>>> Jayanand >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>>>> On 09-Mar-2016, at 04:38, lluisripollphotography < >>>>> lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Jayanand, >>>>> >>>>> You mention a very interesting aspect on photography. Many of us we are >>>> going to events or places to take photographs because there is some >> event >>>> that make >>>>> an interesting subject for a shot, however we are reproducing something >>>> that it is there, at that moment, except if we capture an exceptional >>>> decisive moment on the action, we are not creating we are simply >> copying. I >>>> think and I try to search on ordinary life, on everyday scenes something >>>> interesting in the sense that I would like create the even and not >>>> reproduce an even as it is. >>>>> >>>>> I think your observation very interesting on this sense. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Lluis >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> El 6 mar? 2016, a les 14:11, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at >>>>>> gmail.com> >>>> va escriure: >>>>>> >>>>>> Cuba has been "discovered" some years ago, and most photographs from >>>> there show a touristy sameness that is getting monotonous. Time to go to >>>> other countries, and show your tourist snapshots, before they, too, lose >>>> their novelty value, like Myanmar or Iran.....:-) >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Jayanand >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 06-Mar-2016, at 11:51, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Well, as for colors, all the pictures from that exhibition are B&W. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The other one, from Murcia, is in color. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are many photographs from Cuba these days, but the percentage >> of >>>> good ones is not high. These are good, IMO. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Finally, having been born and lived the first 11 years of my life in >> a >>>> Communist country, I can assure you that the Cubans look forward to the >>>> arrival of Starbucks, Safeway, modern cars etc. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> Nathan >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nathan Wajsman >>>>>>> Alicante, Spain >>>>>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >>>>>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >>>>>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >>>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> < >>>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >>>>>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >>>> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >>>>>>> YNWA >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 06 Mar 2016, at 01:23, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No reflection on the exhibit shown, which is quite nice, but any >>>> images >>>>>>>> taken in Cuba seem to be winning formula.... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ......Mind you, I am jealous,,,,, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But the place looks like every photographer of people, old stuff, >> and >>>> color >>>>>>>> should go there.... before us Americans ruin the place with >> Starbucks, >>>>>>>> Safeway, B of A., and "modern" color palettes of Gray, Mauve, and >>>>>>>> Taupe..... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Frank Filippone >>>>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Alicante has decided to have a photography festival, I supposed >>>> trying to >>>>>>>> emulate cities like Madrid and Perpignan. So today I went to see >> four >>>>>>>> exhibitions. Two of them were quite indifferent, but these two I >>>> really >>>>>>>> liked: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.mayoralphotography.com/entre-dos-aguas-2/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://gustavoaleman.net/No-soy-de-aqui >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Both are the kind of photography I like to do, and the first one >> very >>>> much >>>>>>>> made me think of our own Lluis. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>> Nathan >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley >>> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com >>> http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/tinamanley >>> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/tinamanley > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information