[Leica] London challenge shoot

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Wow, I was going to wait until later before checking them out, but with 
such an endorsement....!!!

I love constant comparison to HCB whenever someone shoots a half decent B&W 
photojounralistic'ish picture...

At 11:35 AM 12/28/2004, B D Colen wrote:

>Okay, fook it! Call me nasty; call me tasteless; call me cruel...
>Normally I remain silent in the face of mundane, or boring, or nice but
>uninspired, or just plain crappy photo posts. In fact, most of the time I 
>don't
>say anything unless I am really moved by a photo. But in the undoubtedly
>foolish belief that people really want honest comments when they post 
>photos,
>and with the very loud and clear caveat that I am normally a real admirer of
>Steve Unsworth's work...(And with the further caveat that this group of
>photographers may be among the world's most talentless, but they happened 
>to be
>hopelessly drunk or on drugs on the day in question ;-) )...
>
>I don't think I have ever seen such a basically crappy collection of snappy
>shots as is contained in that London shoot. With one exception - the shot of
>the mime and the kid, almost everyone is an idea that the shooter failed to
>pull off. The shot of the handicapped guy buying coffee - or whatever - 
>comes
>close as an idea, but the shooter didn't get close enough to get the shot
>right.

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