Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]dan: >effortlessly, spontaneously--that whole zen naked lake-wading business. did you do a self-portrait of this? ;) >What was most astonishing about this was that no one seemed to notice me at >all (or cared). Ordinarily, I'm opaque, but in these few moments (about 1 >roll's worth of shooting) I was utterly transparent. I could get as close >as the composition demanded without fear or hesitation. i was very close to this several times yesterday at the wedding i mentioned previously. part of it, i'm convinced, is simply because the M6 is small and quiet--oh, so quiet--people don't get jarred and intimidated by the klick-whirr-buzz of an SLR. plus, and i'm totally convinced of this, flash bothers people. if i'd shot 20 rolls with flash, i would have driven everyone crazy. i did have a couple of what felt like decisive moments--not sure i've ever had a decisive moment before--one was the bride brushing her teeth in vail and undergarments. the other was flower girl and ring bearer gallivanting in the middle of a golf course surrounded by seemingly-oblivious golfers. >Don't get me wrong: this disappearing act doesn't mean dissociation from the >scene. Just the opposite: it's a kind of seeing that's so intimately >connected to the scene that there is no distance, no separation, and so no >photographer vs. subject. There is just seeing. to continue in the vein above, i really think the M6 lends itself to this--or, more specifically, it does for me. it just feels as if there is *so little* between me and the picture i'm taking. - --brad - -- brad daly bwdaly@hiwaay.net photographs: http://home.hiwaay.net/~bwdaly "I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time." --Alvin Straight "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg