Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2002-05-27-13:18:56 Ted Grant: > Sonny wrote and showed: > >>> My kitchen window. > > > > http://www.sonc.com/paw2/rgb.htm<<< > > Once again proving the simplest things can make the most beautiful pictures > if you don't get yer butt end in a knot over the techie stuff and keep you > imagination in simple mode makes for beautiful moments on film. Simple-looking, but... when you peer at it closely, it seems that a lot of formal elements are working nicely together, a lot of details just happen to be kind of exactly right -- where "right" includes some very subtle tensions where things intersect, or almost-intersect. Maybe it happened by chance, or in some subconscious bit of SonC's brain nearer his eyeballs than his speech centers -- but I admit to suspecting that he's a really talented and detail-oriented formal still-lifeist when he wants to be. I admire this greatly, because whenever I try my hand at careful formal compositions, the result seems far too often to end up being overwrought and over-careful and lifeless. So I stick with on-the-fly pictures of people, which I seem to be much better at. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html