Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm late to the game and playing catch up but here are my first set of PAWs with some excuses/explanations. If you want to avoid the excuses/explanations, feel free to jump straight to http://photo.crazyjapan.com. If you like looking at train wrecks, and as photographers you probably do, please read on. All photos were taken with a Summarit 50/1.5 on a Yasuhara T-981 body. I've been shooting Fortepan 400 for no particular reason, but may switch to Scala in the near future. Comments and critiques are welcome at photo@crazyjapan.com PAW 1: Keeping to the spirit of the Colloquial Glossary of the LUG FAQ, which states that PAW has "deteriorated into a dreary parade of grainy, B&W, poorly framed & composed, cat/ butt/ brat & empty-doorway snaps" I offer a grainy, B&W, poorly framed & composed brat snap of my daughter flipping a plastic steak in a plastic frying pan: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw1.html PAW 2: A dreary snap of the start of a long snow storm in a town on the Japan Sea coast of Japan. With that weather, and bad knees that keep me from skiing, there wasnt' much to do but take pictures out the window: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw2.html PAW 3: I've always been fascinated by the extremes taken to protect, from winter cold, the palm trees in front of the school where I work. They look like something out of Alien: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw3.html PAW 4: Obligatory shot of the train station near my school: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw4.html PAW 5: I got nothin'. PAW 6: An idyllic bamboo grove complete with a trash incinerator: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw6.html PAW6b (detail): I thought PAW 6 would look good if I zoomed in a bit and made it horizontal. Now I'm not so sure: http://photo.crazyjapan.com/paw6b.html PAW 7: This one might actually qualify as cheating as the look is a by-product of taking an underexposed snap and subjecting it to some tweaks in Photoshop. Still, the fact that it's the best gives you an idea of how bad a week this was: http://www.crazyjapan.com/paw7.html