Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/12/2004, at 9:50 AM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: >> Here are some images we made in Nepal: > > Getting caught up on viewing photos... > > Alastair, > > These are great shots, all of them, and I really like this one: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album119/candle One of my favorites too. This was one of those shots that the rangefinder is good for: I watched the candle going down, wanting to have it as close to the prayer table as possible, so that the eyes were more horizontal, but I still needed to see the candle. 135mm lens: lovely family. > > and this one: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album119/kite > > In this shot, for me, you caught the vastness of the terrain, in an > indrect way that emphasizes it, rather than beats the viewer over the > head with it. I feel as if I want to pull these young people back from > the edge of the abyss! Gee I'm glad you said this. I took a lot of images of these kids flying kites, trying to give the impression of how "normal" kids are in what we see as stunning surrounds. Standing by an Abyss is "normal" every day life for them ;-) Of course, I was thinking about FOM2, and how we are the same the world over, and how to show in one image daily life, and "where" we were. Cheers and thanks Alastair