[Leica] ***SPAM*** Re: The decisive moment..... NOT!!

[philippe.amard]

LoL

Steve got it right about HCB's prose (I'm a native of HCB's language)  
and I think there was something in your photo to be shown and shared :-)

Amities from Hcb's (mine in fact) country.
Philippe

Le 7 janv. 15 à 18:27, Steve Barbour a écrit :

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>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>  
>> wrote:
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>> I think HCB would be rolling over in his grave if he saw this.  A  
>> prime
>> example why I am not a good people photographer.  I just can't seem  
>> to find
>> that decisive moment.
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>
> the "decisive moment", as clever and commonly accepted as it is,  is  
> a fiction, a creation of   ? perhaps an editor or publisher...?
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> Cartier-Bresson's original title, still used on the French version  
> of his book.... Images a la Sauvette, means hurried images, or  
> images taken on the sly,  almost stolen, taken without permission.  
> So Aram, I am sure your photos qualify, perhaps more so, even if  
> there is nothing particularly decisive about them. Just so long as  
> they are not posed, and permission was not obtained.
>
> Now as to the question, of whether if you are to steal an image, which
> one should it be ?
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> Just as Cartier-Bresson was selective of his hurried images for his  
> book, the one to show here is our dilemma.
>
> Perhaps, just getting the intact taco into the mouth qualifies.
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> Steve
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>> Take at Taco Tuesday.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c4/s/Tacho+Tuesday+1-0125.jpg.html
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>> And a crop to see the really offending portion of the photo
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c4/s/Taco+Tuesday-0125.jpg.html
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>> So, I guess, give me some rocks to photograph.  At least they will  
>> hold
>> their pose long enough (Geologic time)  for me to capture their  
>> best look.
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>> Comments welcome.
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>> Aram
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>> Aram Langhans
>>
>> (Semi) Retired  Science Teacher
>> & Unemployed photographer
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>> "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin  
>> himself
>> would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
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