Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: reality according to the soldier's
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Sun Jul 22 07:16:05 2007
References: <C2C6BD3C.119E%manolito@videotron.ca> <200707202106.02155.photo.forrest@earthlink.net> <59630DBF-388B-4859-87DD-393B20E4C40C@pandora.be>

Philippe,
Thank you very much for your praise!
Philip



On Sunday 22 July 2007 08:27, Philippe Orlent wrote:
> Hi Philip,
> Went looking at the website and that confetti shot really is world
> class photography, IMO.
> Thanks for showing,
> Philippe
>
> Op 21-jul-07, om 03:06 heeft Philip Forrest het volgende geschreven:
> > This photo is the better one of two that I was able to snap with
> > the Leica
> > while working with my issued Nikon digital.  We weren't out at this
> > site to
> > document it for very long and the people who were managing it were
> > very wary
> > of my being there with a camera (or two) regardless of the fact
> > that my job
> > was to do these photos as a historic record for the military.  I
> > captured
> > this one "on the fly" with the lens at f/16 set to hyperfocal.
> > Mistakenly, I
> > had forgotten that the roll in the camera was Delta 3200 and I
> > exposed this
> > for Pan F 50 iso film.  The 6 stop pull was what gave it the
> > grain.  I wish I
> > had been there longer with proper film, but that day we were on
> > convoy for 16
> > hours visiting different engineering sites and documenting progress.
> > I DO however, have a lot of other photos from Iraq.
> > A few can be seen here:
> > http://www.americanphotojournalist.com/member.php?user=NMCB4PH2
> >
> > Feel free to contact me offlist to other links where most of the
> > photography
> > is located.  That account is password protected.
> >
> > Thanks all,
> > Philip
> >
> > On Friday 20 July 2007 19:27, EPL wrote:
> >> Philip Forrest wrote:
> >>> I took this photo in December, 2004 of a mass grave that my unit
> >>> dug to
> >>> bury the bodies of several thousand Iraqis who were classified as
> >>> collateral casualties.  This was the "nicest" photo of death that
> >>> I took
> >>> out there.
> >>>
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/33mvgf
> >>>
> >>> Leica M2, Kobalux 28
> >>
> >> I would like to see more of this series, if you are able to share
> >> this with
> >> us.
> >>
> >> This reminds me of the photos of My Lai taken by Ronald Haeberle.
> >> Classified as collateral, indeed...
> >>
> >> Emanuel Lowi
> >> Montreal
> >>
> >>
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In reply to: Message from manolito at videotron.ca (EPL) ([Leica] Re: reality according to the soldier's)
Message from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] Re: reality according to the soldier's)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Re: reality according to the soldier's)