Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > I'd like to think so. In the next couple weeks I'm going to try and > have a sit-down with my editor and decide if this is how I want to > spend the next year of my life and if this is something they they > think they can sell. I want to have enough photos and stories to > make a compelling portfolio when I do it. > > It's certainly alive in my head right now -- I realized when doing > Armed America that I really love being around people and hearing > their stories. So for me, something that gets me around people and > hearing stories is a win. And these people have interesting stories > and not only that, but they're people who have, for whatever > reasons, sacrificed for their country. And I think that if you're > going to ask someone to give up what countries ask their fighting > forces to give up -- their freedom, their youth, their lives ... > all of those things, then people have an obligation to listen to > them talk about that experience. > > I've only been doing this for ten months, but I'll never look at an > old man on the bus the same way again. noble and appropriate Kyle... I totally agree with your feelings, tatoos or not... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/jim_002.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/JimUSMClife+.jpg.html Steve > Didier sed: > >> Another great tattoo shot. Will this also make a book, at the end? >> Didier > >>> Tom Murtha began using his skin as canvass in 1954 when he got >>> back from >>> Korea. Significant events from that time as a Navy Corpsman and >>> from his >>> life in the early sixty's as a Marine in Vietnam are marked in >>> ink. His >>> bronze star, his purple heart, the units he served with, and >>> those he >>> lost. On his chest it says "Not all wounds are visible." The wars >>> have >>> never left Tom. >>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/tom-murtha-bw.jpg > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information