Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know, I was just looking for an excuse to use retch and wretch in the same sentence. And I failed, it took two! -dan c. At 10:28 AM 27-12-04 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >Just for the record, Dan, I should have put quotation marks around that >"retch at the thought," as those were most definitely not my words, nor >was that my thought.. :-) > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >Dan C >Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:58 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: RE: [Leica] Stories > > >If using Minoltas causes someone to retch, then I love retching. Does >that make me a wretch? > >;-) > >-dan c. > >At 10:38 PM 26-12-04 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >>Odd, isn't it, that he was reduced to using a Minolta, (retch at the >>thought) and yet produced images that any of us would kill to be able >>to produce with our best Leica gear? ;-) >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > >>Slobodan Dimitrov >>Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:52 PM >>To: Leica Users Group >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Stories >> >> >>Feli; >>It's 35mm. But what's really depressing, is how destitute he was near >>the end. All the good gear was sold off some time prior to the Minamata > >>shoot. I believe, he was reduced to using a Minolta (retch at the >>thought) during this period. >>It reminds of a few beat era poets, that didn't 'make it' who lived in >>Venice, CA. I knew some, with more than a dozen published books, who >>were cleaning Porta Potties to make ends meet. >>S. Dimitrov >> >> >>On Dec 26, 2004, at 6:38 PM, Feli di Giorgio wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 26, 2004, at 3:54 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: >>> >>>> It is all that and more, Neal - Knowing Smith, and the era, it may >>>> well have been posed, but so was the original Pieta, so what the >>>> heck.. >>;-) >>> >>> According to the book, at some point during his stay he decided that >>> he wanted to take a shot of the mother bathing the child. Seems >>> perfectly reasonable since he was all over their house, and the >>> entire >> >>> village, day and night. So, he examined the location before the shoot >>> and took some meter readings. At this point he set up two small >>> flashes for fill light. Perhaps a day later, Smith joined them during > >>> bath time. Supposedly he only took a few shots, because he felt he >was >> >>> intruding on something very private, but knew it when he had taken >>> that one. I'm curious what format it was shot on. 35? 6x6? 6x7? >>> >>> Has anyone ever seen this picture as a real print? >>> >>> Feli >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 >>> www.elanphotos.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>Slobodan Dimitrov >>Photography >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >