[Leica] [img] gun portrait

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Ken Carney offered:
Subject: RE: [Leica] [img] gun portrait


ted asked:
>> Apart from all this stuff you wrote about the picture......... did you
>> like it?  Is it any good without all the descriptive prose?<<<

 Ken responded:
> I think I was contaminated by familiarity with the shooting sports.<<<<<

Hi Ken,
Fair enough answer along with your other points. Thank you,
ted


> The subjects were obviously wearing target shooting garb, like they might
> have wandered off of a skeet range, but here they were by some water,
> possibly hunting or looking for something.  So, the picture didn't make
> sense to me and no doubt prevented seeing the image fully.  So, do I like
> it?  The problem here is that I am comparing it to some of the Armed 
> America
> images, whether this one intended to be in that group or not.  Some of the
> Armed America images will knock your socks off, not the case (for me) with
> this image.
>
>> The bottom-line on an illustration like this is.... "does it illustrate
>> this
>> photographers ability to shoot something above the norm of many of the
>> day?"
>
> I'd say there is little question about that!!
>>
>> I'm sure you'd have to agree, Kyle's ability, certainly for many of us
>> long
>> term folks who've seen is work over the years, is above and beyond many 
>> in
>> the illustration business of today!
>
> Absolutely.  Would that I could make images like that.  Or had the
> imagination to come up with something like the Armed America book.  I hope
> it becomes available soon.
>
> Ken