Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Jun 21 18:39:53 2005
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Ah, some of that Roman humor...  Actually, it did as much for me as
most of the subway shots posted recently.  I have been rethinking a
lot of comments regarding street photography that the Deadman posted a
few years ago.  Occasionally just showing the human condition is
enough to make an image work, most of the time all you have is a banal
shot of people with no revelations about humans, the human condition,
stupid human tricks, inhumanity, or simple humor.

Most of the time, the most mundane of snapshots taken of a normal
group of humans has more meaning than the typical streeet photo.  Just
check out the piles of images that SonC deals with in Louisiana.  In a
hundred years just seeing what people wear, eat, relate, pecking order
relationships is pretty interesting.

Anyway, the humor is now appreciated.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 6/21/05, David Mason <masonster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > The image itself; what makes this image say anything to you?  It is an
> > image of a bloke on mass transit, what else is going on that would
> > help me understand a small part of the world better.  Is it someone
> > near to you so that there is personal meaning to this image?  Was
> > something going on just before you took the image that made it
> > interesting to you?
> >
> > Thanks for sharing, keep pressing the shutter release, and enjoy the
> > world around you.
> 
> 
> Absolutely agree with everything, but also keep in mind that the shot
> is a tongue-in-cheek shot that was an attempt to recreate all the
> subway shots B.D. has posted :)
> 
> 
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