[Leica] Photo Books and a New PAW

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Richard,
I like both images, especially the first. Falling rain so often looks 
like scratches that it somehow is difficult to get a good rendition of 
the environment: anyone have solutions shutter speeds etc best to 
capture snow or rain falling.?

On 06/01/2005, at 3:22 AM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> Had to be away awhile due to pressures elsewhere and am just now 
> getting caught up.  Sorry to have missed the discussion on Sontag.  I 
> don't intend to reopen it other than to say that her book, whatever 
> its failings, was the first one to make me question what I was doing 
> with my photography.
>
> Another book that was really helpful in those days was one by Ralph 
> Hattersley who, as I remember, advised as a learning tool "one camera, 
> one lens (50 mm), one film (Tri-X), and get as close as you dare."  I 
> wish I still had his book.  It was called "Discover Your Self Through 
> Photography."  It got trashed in one of my regular library purges.
>
> In any case, I've decided to start a PAW.  I will post weekly but 
> since I tend to photograph in bursts, the photos will of necessity be 
> recent but not necessarily from last week.
>
> These will be the first "people" pictures I've posted.  Given my size 
> (6'5") it's a bit hard to be stealthy, but I do try street candids 
> from time-to-time.  Both were taken in York UK last summer with an 
> Olympus C-60 and converted to B&W in Photoshop.
>
> Photo 1
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/2005-PAW/P7040043_web
>
> Photo 2
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/2005-PAW/P7040022_web
>
> Comments and criticisms welcome as always.
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick
> Boston MA
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Alastair