[Leica] Chasing lights...

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

At 07:19 AM 8/15/2006, Ted Grant wrote:
>>When light is gone, all you have are ghosts
>>http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/081506/crop0037.jpg
>
>Holy sufferin' cat fish!! Was it a wavey navey water night and things were 
>heaving back and forth from the waves to create off balance near make you 
>sea sick shooting at an angle like this?

:-) By this time, it is totally dark, so I was just propping the camera up 
on railings to get 6-10 seconds exposures. This particular railing is 
slanted. Obviously the picture doesn't work for anyone except me, I am OK 
with that. That's why I post pictures to elicit comments. I am in many ways 
attracted to somewhat unsettled nature of night pictures though, like 
Michael Kenna's stuff, but with people. Not that I am comparing myself with 
Kenna of course, but it's quality of the dark that I am interested in.

>Quite frankly it looks like one of two things.
>1: By this time in the evening you've had one too many and this is what 
>the world looks like. ;-) Or this is an accidental exposure as you were 
>walking along? :-)

I was goofing around of the pier taking long exposure pictures for the heck 
of it :-)


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