Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree.....shame on Gary for being so closed-minded and overly critical. BTW, Pascal DID mention that the image you were about to view was on his "glamour and nude" page, so if you did not want to see it, you were not forced to view it. Francesco Sanfilippo, systemadmin@onebox.com Internet Developer & Systems Administrator http://www.glossymedia.com/ http://www.photorealm.com/ - ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Nikon LS-2000 sample > I'm afraid I don't share your distaste, Gary. Glamour and erotica have a > history as long as photography itself. While Pascal's examples may be a > little more straight-forward than some other practitioners of the art, > nothing in them is salacious or prurient - at least to my eyes. We're all > adults, we're all human, we all got hair. This isn't Victorian England, and > Pascal has nothing to be ashamed of. Except maybe that he's not using that > 80/1.4 wide open to shoot Elena in more exotic lighting. > > Paul Chefurka > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary D. Whalen [mailto:whalen@circle.net] > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:40 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon LS-2000 sample > > > Pascal > > Shame on you. Your picture is a cancer to this newsgroup. I see > no > reason for you to post this image here. I am sure that you could have found > another image, less distateful, than this one. I used to read your posts > and > pay attention - now they go into the trash - were they will have the > appropriate > company. > > Gary D. Whalen > >