Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cute shot, Anthony, and a great illustration of the "black cat in a coalbin" problem (no offense to the poodle). As you know, Paris is a wonderful place to be a dog. I think one could easily do a small humor book on the Parisians and how they dote on their dogs. When you see a Bichon Frise being fed pate de fois gras at the table, from a fork... well, you've seen it, I'm sure. When we were there a couple of years ago (sans Leica, unfortunately), we often ate breakfast in a particular cafe/restaurant where a very well-fed Yellow Lab presided. The first day, I was watching the dog, and the waitress came up to me anxiously. "Is something wrong, Monsieur?" "Oh no," I said, "I was just admiring the dog." "Oh, yes," she beamed, "he is my dog, his name is Calypso." I think she was worried that I was going to be an Ugly American and object to the dog being there. When she found out I actually *liked* dogs, we got royal treatment. - --Peter At 02:56 PM 08/15/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:47:21 +0200 >From: "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> >Subject: >Message-ID: <OE35k69RKLpgTFur2iz0000151d@hotmail.com> >References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010814234932.009fb820@pop.2alpha.net> > >It's not limited to Amsterdam. By total coincidence I took a similar >picture in >Paris about a week ago: > >http://www.smallevents.com/doggie.html > >It didn't come out as nice as yours, but the situation is similar. I had to >Photoshop it a lot to get this poodle out of the deep shadows, and it is still >buried in the overall photo. What looks like vignetting isn't; that's >just the >way the scene was lit (there was a pool of indirect light right near the dog, >and deeper shadows around it). I wrote: > > Here's an example of gritty, inner-city street photography from the mean > > streets of Amsterdam, showing the hardships of life in the big city, and > > the exploitation of the proletariat by the pampered and privileged... (not > > really). > > > > http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/italy/bikedog.htm > > > > M4-P, 25mm f/4 Skopar, Kodak Supra 400. It's my first color negative scan > > on the LS-2000. I snagged this on a brief layover there, as we returned > > to the U.S. from Italy this spring.