Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I found B.D. Colen reply to be quite inspiring, thank you. Regards Rob Manchester, England - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Streetshooting > Andrew Nemeth wrote: > > > 3. The people(?) in the shot are a little far away, no? IMO, > > candid slice-of-life photography requires recognisable faces > > at 4m or less. Yes this requires courage / gall / rudeness / > > friendliness / whatever - which is why so few can do it, and > > why so much 'street photography' is little more than shots > > of peoples backs. > > I think we can get a bit hung up in definitions and miss the beauty in > front of our eyes....I love it, Sonny - The greens and browns, the > dappled sunlight, the curve of the ruts in the dirt/mud, and, oh yes, > the hikers approaching in the distance...No, it's not yet another shot > of a drooling homeless drunk lending "color" to the urban scene, it's > not the 999,999th original shot of a few smokers huddled outside a > building, and it's not even the 7,000,938th shot of a beautiful woman in > a tight skirt/blouse being stared at by a couple large-gutted > construction workers. > > But it's a photo that works for me - and I don't even like color, woods, > or mud all that much...;-) > > B. D.