[Leica] are you horizontal, vertical, or mixed?

[ericm at pobox.com (Eric)]

I noticed something peculiar...I'm a vertical guy when it comes to pictures
of people.

My latest thumbnails:

http://canid.com/current/thumbs.html

My thumbnails of my daughter:

http://canid.com/johanna/thumbs.html

I probably shoot half horizontals and half verticals.  For most situations,
I have both formats.  Not all.  But many.  I hadn't realized how much I
selectively choose vertical pics for scanning and printing, though, until I
realized that all from this weekend's developing session that I chose to
scan were verticals.  And then noticed how many more verticals I've chosen
of my daughter.

When it comes to "urban" landscape, I'm about half and half:

http://canid.com/sioux_falls/thumbs.html

I'm currently reading Jim Brandenburg's book, _Chased by the Light_.  One of
his pictures is a vertical shot of 3 bear cubs up a tree.  He relays the
story of how he was trying to go with all horizontal shots.  In fact, this
is the *only* vertical picture in the entire book.  He was a bit shaken by
the mother black bear mock charging him, huffing, and snapping her teeth
from a few feet away.  Kept reminding himself that black bear rarely kill
and eat photographers.  He made a few exposures, and only later realized
that the stress of the situation had contributed to his momentarily
forgetting he was creating all horizontal compositions for his book.  :)

--
Eric
http://canid.com/