Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]... all the time completely ignoring your main subject, > who by > now will be annoyed that you do not find him/her as interesting as > everyone > else. Now you return to your non-existent tree, check it out once > more, and > put the camera back to your eye. > > It is embarrassing how well this works. I always feel a bit ashamed, > but > hey. > > > -- > Johnny Deadman ROTFLMAO!!!! That's me!... No; I'm shooting that trash can BEHIND you...Damn I thought I had that copywritten.... no Patented... one or the other ;-) I am Nearsighted in one eye and Farsighted in the other...(don't ask me which...) AND my eye wanders up in the air on a mind of its own.. actually I can control it to some extent which comes in handy. My Best street photo story... I had been shooting film in the Five Points Nighborhood of Denver for about 4 months. People had gotten pretty used to the longhaired white boy in the neighborhood and folks were always asking me to take their pictures etc. Well one day I'm walking down Welton lookin into the to p of my Rolliflex wihout a care in the world. I decide to get a different angle on this building I'm shooting and walk down a side street to "see what I can see" This Rather Large Black man comes out of his house at full run. And I'm still looking into the rolei I ook up long enought to see him and I turned toward te back of the building. Then I realized this guy is closing on ME! and at a good clip too! towards my right side. Fortunately (for me cause by now it was too late to dash off) he pulled up short. I looked a little surprised I guess cause he stood there out of breath and I said "Hi" Anyway He started yelling at me taking pictures of people in HIS neighborhood. I explained that I live in HIS neighbor hood and therefor it should be our neighborhood and I always take photos of the neighborhoods I live in cause I like people to know that the longhair up the block is OK. He was still PISSED...and intoxicated I realized.. then he went off about the Rodney King Trial.... It turns out that no more than 1 Minute before this guy saw me the erdict for the trial came out basically letting thes cops off the hook for blatently beating someone... I voiced my opinion and said I thought the cops should be drawn and quartered for their behavior... aftter another 10 minutes we were somewhat friendly and I started walking the long way home.... tat was in '92(?) Jeremy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/