Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Jeff, I appreciate the comment, and to Martin, also: Actually my beautiful wife has a talent for making a house lovely, but the window is my creation. We had several unusual bottles from pepper sauce and olive oil and the like, and I remembered my photographer friend Johnny Donnels in New Orleans who had a window of colored glass bottles. You can see that window if you are at Royal Street and St. Peter. I did not seek to emulate his window, because I had shot it and used it for a station break slide at WWL-TV, and it played for many years there, until the advent of CG station brak animations. One day, I noticed we had a window with knick knacks, and a few bottles around, so I filled the bottles, and added colored water. I set them up, and that was that for about a month. Then last week, I walked through, and spotted the picture. RGB but not in that order. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. Thanks so much for the kind words. Sonny http://www.sonc.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: SonC's PAW this week > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html