Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] SonC's PAW 41
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:58:21 -0700

Sonny, it's my favorite so far! simply great!

trish

> From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc@gmx.net>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:32:16 -0500
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] SonC's PAW 41
> 
> John,
> The game was underway, and those unruly officials hate it when I go afield and
> start
> posing the players.
> 
> About the other shot.  I had listened to the rain early in the morning, and
> remembered  the kids were out there, so I got up from my toasty bed and went
> across
> town, hoping to capture some wet and dejected demonstrators.
> 
> The sponsors had cleared the kids out because of the high winds, and the
> rather
> feeble-built shanties were in danger of, and some indeed did, collapse.
> 
> Had there been forlorn people to shoot, I surely would have shot them, and
> that
> probably would have been my paw this week.  As it is, I can only speculate, as
> I
> said, the kids learned a greater lesson about having a safe and secure place
> to sleep
> in this case than they would have learned in the pretend shack-a-thon they had
> planned.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Amiet" <jeapic@operamail.com>
> To: "LUG Messages" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:51 PM
> Subject: [Leica] SonC's PAW 41
> 
> 
>> Hi sonny,
>> I do like your current soccer shot. This looks much more like what I was
>> trying to
> say to you last week! The nit
>> picking part - I would have liked the OOF boy in the background forward or
>> backward
> of the subject. His vision
>> going the same way as the subject, as it is, would have 'weighted' the impact
> greatly had it more clearly
>> separated from the main boy. :-) Wow, that is really picky, which means I had
>> to
> struggle to find fault. Maybe you
>> should take up coaching the team, then you position players as you want. :-)
>> :-)
>> The portrayal in your other not -a- PAW pic might have been improved by
>> including
> one or several of the
>> students (who were probably not available when you took this). I think it
>> needs a
> dejected human element to
>> amplify the message. May have been better to exclude the orange security
>> fencing
> and had dejected students
>> surveying the mess. Perhaps moving in much closer with a wider lens to
>> emphasize
> one shack with a
>> suggestion to one side of the others.
>> Now I have to work on my PAW. My time has been demanded in other direction
> currently.
>> JohnA
>> 
>> 
>> John Amiet
>> Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
>> Email.  jeapic@operamail.com
>> PAW Index: http://www.showplace.com.au/jamiet/PAW/paw.html
>> 
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