RE: [Leica] the loud mouth beats the quiet camera most every time....

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Kyle strikes again! :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of kyle
> cassidy
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] the loud mouth beats the quiet camera most every
> time....
>
>
> all this talk of photographing in cathedrals with quiet cameras urges me
> to make a point ... it rarely hurts to ASK. especially with something
> big and slow like a cathedral that's not going to get away from you. it
> works like this:
>
> tourist approaches woman leaving cathedral.
>
> tourist: "this is a marvelous cathedral, i'm left speechless. do you come
> here every week?"
>
> woman: "yes, for forty years."
>
> tourist: "amazing, it must be very inspiring."
>
> woman: "oh yes it is, i never get tired of it."
>
> tourist: "my name's darth jones, i'm from cleveland."
>
> woman: "pleased to meet you, i'm mrs. furtnot. i've lived here since 1917
> when we moved from alsas lorain. my whole family. mother, brother, six
> dogs and a pig. i was 31 at the time i remember it as though it were
> yesterday."
>
> tourist: "so you know this town very well, you must. i love old churches
> like this. i'd really like to take a picture of it to show my friends at
> home. who should i ask for permission?"
>
> woman: "why, monsegnior blursplat, he's right over there, i'll introduce
> you.... monsegnior, this is mr jones, he's all the way from america."
>
> tourist: "fantastic place you have here. it puts my local church to
> shame."
>
> msgr: "why yes, we've been building it since the 5th century."
>
> tourist: "you're constructing it now? even today?"
>
> msgr: "yes, yes, we just added a ping-pong table and a cistern."
>
> tourist: "amazing. so it's been growing all this time?"
>
> msgr: "yes it has. we're very proud of it, it's the life of our little
> town."
>
> tourist: "i was just telling mrs. furtnot that i'd really like to take
> some pictures of the inside to show my friends at home. your church is
> spectacular."
>
> msgr: "of course, of course, mass is in session until 6:45, when that
> let's out, please let me show you some of the best places, and
> we'll get the sextant to let you up in the bell tower, you get a really
> beautiful view of the town from there. and if you can come back tomorrow
> afternoon around 3:30, that's when the light hits the stain glass windows
> and it's very spectacular."
>
> tourist: "do you mind if i bring my tripod?"
>
> msgr: "not at all, as long as it won't scuff the floor. say, is that a
> leica! i have six myself!"
>
> etc. etc. etc.
>
> it really works & the ability to do it properly and enthusiastically is
> one key difference between a great photographer and a tourist with a
> roll of snaps...... access is nearly everything.....
>
> my .02
>
> keep pushing that shutter button, it'll come unstuck.
>
> kc
>
>