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Subject: [Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:39:06 -0500
References: <a3f189160910010814h3f654072md6bb7ac064d8aae6@mail.gmail.com> <4CA36255-557C-431C-8372-1AE848005149@gmail.com>

Kevin,

I took the liberty of browsing through the images in your gallery, and you 
have a lot of nicely captured moments in there.  I wish that I had your eye 
for the dramatic.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Landdeck" <bamboozld at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy


> Well I've not been posting often, but, Sonny's post got me thinking.   I 
> had to admit to myself though that it -can- be hard to find photo 
> opportunities in one's daily environment.  In the case of one's home, 
> familiarity may not breed contempt, but it does often prevent me from 
> really seeing.  It's too easy to go through the days on auto-pilot 
> without noticing the things most familiar to myself.  Sonny's  challenge 
> reminded me that when I make the effort even the most  familiar and 
> mundane can be photographic fodder.  Hence, I'm posting  two images made 
> at a location where I spend far too much time: the  living room couch. 
> Neither was made with a Leica, however, and  they're not masterpieces by 
> any stretch of the imagination, just daily  life moments when the light 
> broke through my stupor, made me take  notice and record it.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shudaizi/3557357781_8a93119c66_o.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shudaizi/3678413299_bffc21b25c_o.jpg.html
>
> Kevin Landdeck
> =============
> Only connect.
> =============
> bamboozld at gmail.com
>
> shudaizi photography:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shudaizi/
>
>
>>
>> Why don't you guys just get into a posting frenzy, so some of us  guys 
>> who
>> post week in and week out won't feel so lonely out here?
>>
>> You know, you don't have to go halfway around the Earth on an  amazingly
>> expensive holiday to take a flipping picture.  I sat in my easy  chair 
>> the
>> other night and took one.
>>
>> Four shots, the first three blocks from my house, the second a block 
>> further
>> away, the next ten miles away, the last in my house. Get busy guys.
>>
>> Geeze.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy)
Message from bamboozld at gmail.com (K Landdeck) ([Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy)