Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was indeed a revealing experience and a very pleasant evening. Cool people (I have always found San Franciscan very friendy), delightful hoerdeuvres and libation. The music made it difficult to stand still. Even Jim seemed younger then when I first met him two years ago. I was very surprised to learn that Angela was such a young gal. After Jim's bio and seeing the work of an obviously accomplished photographer, I had expected to meet a much older person. Her work certainly is worthy of her credentials and shows a maturity rarily seen until after many years of struggle and toil. I was impressed also by the choice of subject - and camera, again because of her age. I liked her sense of color and form as well as her ingenuity regarding the presentation. For once, size and presntation *did* do justice to the content rather than compensating for medicre work. Her photography is striking and has a very positive impact from a technical as well as aesthetic perpective. The only criticisim I have has to do with positioning of horizon lines. A few prints had too much empty sky. I tried to find the reasoning for it in the content but in the end concluded that more careful cropping would have enhanced the image. Congratulations Angela, you have an assured future in photography (although, having been a photographer myself, I would steer you towards medicine or engineering). Joe Codispoti - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html