[Leica] Just wondering...

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Now th?t's a Groundhog Day feeling for me.
This is a so very typical and reoccuring situation, every time again:

A somewhat blunt B.D. statement suggesting that we're all crap and  
that can only lead to one reaction: and how are you doing, dude?  
Followed by a number of fine photographs to prove that you are doing  
very well. Sometimes accompanied with an Oly endorsement.
Mostly it's preceded by an (easily decryptable and predictable)  
enigmatic phrase that has to prove that you are a man of the world  
but that also suggests/insinuates the contrary of those that react to  
it.
It's your typical recipe, B.D. A teaching trick. Very Jesuit, too.
But we're not your pupils, are we?
We know you're a good photographer. We know you make good  
photographs. We appreciate them every time again. Sometimes we learn  
something from them. That's all good.
But please leave this self-assuring foreplays out. You don't need  
that. And neither do we: we're all grown ups here.

Thanks for showing,
Philippe

BTW: Although I liked the slide show I didn't like the music at all:  
so very clich? and pass?. A warp back in time into the era of  
supermarket muzak. Surely you can do better than that?


Op 10-jun-07, om 16:34 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven:

> To answer a number of questions about what's with me and what have  
> I been up
> to -
>  - My health is fine, thanks;
>  - I'm very busy in my day job - some of you may have noticed a  
> flood of
> recent stories about some exciting stem cell research ;-)
> - I've been busy shooting -
>
> Among other recent jobs:
>
> Here's a slide show with sound of two days of wedding prep and  
> wedding at
> the Baltimore zoo -
>
> www.bdcolenphoto.com/aliceandtriften
>
> Here's a pdf of a complete book shot at the Broad Institute of the
> celebration of Eric Lander's - he of the human genome project - 50th
> birthday and the 20th anniversary of his lab -
>
> www.bdcolenphoto.com/eric@50.pdf
>
> And here's book 2 of a 2 book shoot I did of a weekend celebration  
> of the
> life of the deceased wife of a Detroit auto exec. The first volume  
> was the
> gathering of family and friends the day before; this volume  
> captures the
> event itself, held at Symphony Hall in Detroit.
>
> www.bdcolenphoto.com/millerbook2.pdf
>
> Other than that I just finished teaching my documentary photo class  
> at MIT,
> and next month will be teaching my Maine Photographic Workshop  
> class. Next
> spring I'll be teaching my doc photo class at both MIT and the Harvard
> Extension School.
>
> So that's what I've been up to. Oh, right, and I am still shooting  
> with the
> Olympus E1, E330, and occasionally the E500. And to echo the  
> comments of
> several of you, the 7-14 f4 is a terrific lens; it's virtually  
> welded to my
> e330 body - the combination of the super wide angle and the flip  
> out - and
> therefore waist-level  - viewing screen is terrific.
>
>
>
>
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