Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These links still don't work for me. I think it is the space in the "photo of week" part of the URL that throws the browsers off. Mike d - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm@oven.com> To: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:39 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: New Photos > 2001-02-27-16:32:36 Tina Manley: > > Comments and criticisms welcome. > > Okay, I'll be so bold. > > I poked around and found the images hidden beneath the page. I > particularly liked > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00220.jpg > > (signature Manley), > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00308.jpg > > (she has great dignity *and* the colors are a sensual treat, even if a > little cool), > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00317.jpg > > (great sense of space and converging lines), > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00519.jpg > > (the subject's knowing eyes are compelling). > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00416.jpg > > is just a sensual feast of color, nearly irresistable on that > count, but I wonder whether it holds up otherwise -- the portraits seem > to work better when the people are being engaged directly. > > http://main.nc.us/openstudio/tinamanley/Photo%20of%20Week/00207.jpg: > > I don't know whether the diagonal-ness condemns it as gimmicky or > doesn't need to. I'm still looking at it. I know I've taken my share > of photos compositionally akin to that which looked cool in the > viewfinder but didn't stand the test of time; but I'm not Tina Manley, > either. H'mm. >