Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, posting a new photo every week is just so pass?...:-) So I've added a black and white version of last week's better shot. So color? Or black and white? http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Kit1_bw Fire away... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hemenway Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:08 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05 Dave: There's several good portraits there, I like 028, 034 and 283 the most... except for the third face w/o a nose in the background. Jim David Mason wrote: > [sorry, long paragraph to get to me sharing some photos] > > I was in Chicago briefly this weekend and took the opportunity to > wander over to the protest against American presence in Iraq. For you > neo-con-death-cult-members you will be happy to hear that the turn-out > was about 200 or 300 people to about 2000 police officers. For what > its worth, I think protests are a waste of time as they are so > overplayed and tend to evolve into unfocussed bitching about some > supposed 'enemy' . However, we all know they can present interesting > photo practice as well. As I was thinking about how I don't like > protests I was also thinking about how I generally don't like protest > photos as they tend to be just like those photos that are termed > "street photography" but are really just blurred shots of people > moving. So in my attendence to this event I decided that I would try > to ask permission to take people's photographs as much as possible > (unless I saw something great that needed a quick shot). Most of these > shots are taken with the permission of the subjects and I was > interested in how some of them look candid despite that. My attempt, > which I think I only scratched the surface of, was to show the variety > of good people who do oppose the actions their government has taken. I > was less interested in the people yelling at the cops although I did > grab one or two of them too. > > http://dmason.net/protest/ > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information