Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html