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Subject: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon
From: ron-price at curiousrobot.com (Ron Price)
Date: Sun May 9 13:01:15 2004

I didn't pick up on the 'not registered' thing at all. Not sure why this is
a problem.

I think that the piece did just what a good photo story is supposed to--tell
a story of some kind. It had a point of view. It imparted some understanding
of what somebody running the Boston Marathon goes through as a runner,
illustrating the stages of the process and the feelings and physical states
of the runners. It looked around to observe a few of the unique stories
taking place around it.

None of the photos were necessarily prize-winners, but combined with the
text and the structure of the image sequence, the story is both clear and
personal, which is enough to make it fairly compelling to me.

Ron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Adam Bridge
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 8:46 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon
> 
> 
> On Saturday, May 8, 2004 B. D. Colen thoughtfully wrote:
> 
>> So one of my students, who had already done most of the work on a
>> project on a little airport outside Boston, decided that she was going
>> to make her real project a look at the Boston Marathon from a runner's
>> point of view - which is to say she ran the entire thing with an
>> Olympus C5050 in hand.
>> 
>> Like a number of the students, she was new to photography when the
>> semester began, and she was given cropping advice on a number of the
>> images. But that said - I think what she did is pretty terrific...
>> http://web.mit.edu/jumpbean/www/marathon/index.htm
>> 
>> B. D.
> 
> Not being a runner-dude I found it pretty, well, okay - runner people.
> It happened to be the Boston Marathon on a relatively hot day (I
> gather.)
> 
> But I gained nothing. I mean "why do I do this" in the middle of the
> race/run. And then I learn - gee - not an entered runner.
> 
> I don't get it. I don't get why it's good because beyond carrying a
> camera for so far to take the pictures (which is sorta heroic) they
> don't talk to me at all. It seems empty.
> 
> Adam
> 
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Replies: Reply from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Qualify for the Boston Marathon?)
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