[Leica] In case anyone is vaguely interested...

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

BD,

FWIW Phong's comments are exactly what mine would be; except that I don't 
know 
the two dudes!

But great photography.

Thanks for posting them,

Peter Dzwig


Phong wrote:

> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/album154
> 
> 
> Very nice even though I have seen most of these before.
> You didn't ask, but I will give my comments anyway :-)
> 
> For a 20 photo portfolio with such diversity, I find
> the 6 baby-in-the-hospital photos too big a set on a
> single subject.  I would take out maybe 3 of them,
> and replace them with others that reinforce some
> other themes, or introduce new themes.
> 
> The 20 photos together make a much bigger
> impact than seeing them separately over the course
> of several months, even though most of them clearly,
> clearly stand very strongly by and on themselves.
> Seeing them together gives me a stronger sense of
> what makes you tick as a photographer; no rocks
> and peeling paint for you, oh no.  Definitely social
> stuff: aging and sickness, youth, women, and jewishness,
> and race, photographed photographers, etc.
> Social stuff with a touch of the unexpected either in
> the contrast or in the similarity.  I could go on, but I 
> will refrain myself.   :-)
>