[Leica] IMG: Backstage at the Opera

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

> Hi, quite a few people let me know they prefered the backstage
> pictures that I took at the Peabody Opera to the onstage pictures, so
> I rummaged around and found a group of pictures that were put up at
> Peabody in 2001, in a show called "Transformations, Backstage at the
> Opera". I really prefer doing the backstage pictures, and gave it up
> as a service to the Conservatory, as I could not easily do both
> backstage pictures and onstage ones, too.
>
> All of these were M6, Tmax 3200, Xtol 1:1. The Leica is indispensable
> for this kind of work, as all of you know. I don't bother people even
> when very close. Always I give copies of each picture to the subjects
> (after my trip to Spoleto this fall I had a huge postage bill) to say
> thank you.
>
> My own favorite of these is the highlight picture of Elizabeth
> Racheva (at the time she was Elizabeth Davis) having her makeup applied.

Jesse,
I was going to rate a few, but there are too many fine images here to try
to jettison many at all. Great collection.

Cheers

Alastair