Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:14 PM, Ken Carney wrote: > Very interesting, and I will visit. I'm not that big on deep > analysis of > photography. (I did have a great opportunity to be in a seminar by > a famous > West Coast Photographer, who liked my stuff but wanted to know what I > thought about the scene, the symbolism, how I visualized it. I > tried to > tell him that I was like the protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's V - > "he stood > at the urinal without a thought in his head" - and just thought, > OK, that's > nice light, click. But he wouldn't buy it, though it was the truth.) Wonderful story. I totally agree that spontaneous photographic reaction to light, events, whatever, provides quite enough impetus and reason. I suspect that even before you "thought" "nice light" the body was beginning to reach for the camera. > The link to the ironwork art was worth the visit. That is great > stuff, as > are your photos of it. I wondered if I might be able to afford > something, > probably not. Definitely not inexpensive. Yet, the work will last many life times with a minimum of care. If you're interested in ironwork; Seth Tyler, another smith who's work I photograph, and who's web site I designed and maintain can be found at: <http://www.sethtyler.net> > I thought the driveway gate was great, but perhaps not too > practical, unless there was a team of Dobermans behind it... Thx Don't think they intended it as "high" security. The property sits high on a bluff above Lake Michigan, north of Port Washington, WI. One drives past eight or ten 40 acre farm fields on a one lane road before arriving at the gate. Once through the gate one drives another two thousand yards on a snaky trail lined with very large mature pine trees before seeing the home and the lake view. The discussions between Dan and the property owner seemed more about capturing waves, sails and blending with nature than keeping out intruders. The property owner built the stone piers himself along with accomplishing phenomenal landscape gardening. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 >