Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/02

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Subject: [Leica] The Gates
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Wed Mar 2 10:19:31 2005
References: <1109784623.4225f82f14c37@webmail.mit.edu>

That's real imagination at work. Terrific!  I like it the way it is. 
Don't change a thing.


>Okay, we've seen Gates photos ad nauseum over the past three weeks, shot 
>with
>every lens Leica ever thought of making, mounted on virtually every body. So
>here is what I think may just be the best Gates photo I've seen yet - with 
>two
>caveats: I'm excluding some of the overviews that we've seen in the media; 
>and
>I recognize that knowing what this is requires that one has neither been in 
>a
>coma these past three weeks, nor is one blind.
>
>Oh, right...it was shot with a Canon Powershot A20 by an MIT student named
>Victoria Fan, a "beginner" in my Documentary Photo class. It was one of the 
>10
>photos in her "Space Ship" assignment.
>
>BTW - Could it benefit from a crop turning it into a tight vertical? 
>Perhaps. Or
>Perhaps not.
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/album127/VictoriaFan_gatessm
>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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