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Subject: [Leica] travel photos of places i've never been
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:38:30 -0500 (CDT)
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Interesting idea, at least.   Are you related to Neal?

Bob

On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> My new photography project:
>
> http://inthehive.org
>
> On June 11th I was looking at some photographs by [insert name of a  
> famous photographer who I won't name but you can probably figure  
> out] thinking Did he really mean to take this photo? Does this  
> guy's camera go off at random? and I started wondering what the  
> photos would be like if someone just carried around a camera that  
> captured an image at random. And of course, I then thought why not  
> find out? I put up a cryptic call for volunteers and got 23 people  
> I'd never met from all across the U.S. and Canada who agreed to  
> wear cameras around their necks for two days. Over the weekend of  
> June 13th and 14th I sent eleven SMS text messages at random times  
> to everybody in the group and they pressed the shutter buttons on  
> their camera, photographing whatever happened to be in front of  
> them at that moment.
>
> I "took" 266 photographs that way, 83 of which are in the gallery.
>
> No Leica's were harmed during the photography.
>
> Kc
>
>
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