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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: SonC's PAW this week
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:22:46 -0500
References: <005901c20599$8658d8e0$808d81ac@nsula.edu> <002901c205a2$953f7540$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net> <20020601171510.A3013@latency.net>

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.
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