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Subject: [Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:35:53 -0400
References: <4BA2E38E.9080505@cox.net> <C7C88AF8.5F9FD%mark@rabinergroup.com> <19b6d42d1003182311k7eef3e1bsac0fcb9501a3ebb@mail.gmail.com>

Must watch out for those foreigners taking pictures of our women.


At 02:11 AM 3/19/2010, you wrote:
>Rabs you are a three chord rock song on permanent loop man. (Computer /
>e-bay / equipment sellers / etc). But I agree with you on the no babes
>front, which struck me frankly as WEIRD in so far as the hoopla clearly was
>driven at least in part by good old reliable American sexual hysteria: half
>the article was people saying he was essentially hanging around like some
>kind of perv taking pictures of women, with his tongue hanging out and on
>the verge of exposing himself. There are like five pictures of women out of
>70.  He seems actually most interested in homeless panhandler wino types.
>They have faces that tell stories 'tis true.
>
>This country is getting more nuts all the time.  Imagine if Lluis started
>hanging round taking shots and posting them with tags like "Two fun
>senoritas." He'd be in jail. Plus, you know, he's foreign.
>
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>wrote:
>
> > > Here's the guy's photostream...
> > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/38261591 at N06/
> > >
> > > Mike D
> > >
> > > Jan Decher wrote:
> > >> Big brouha here in Burlington ...
> >
> >
> > Zero babes I want my money back.
> > Thanks Jan I was looking for it I only I think found one shot on the 
> > search
> > engine contact sheet mode. (Google image)
> >
> > By the way he may not be using a wide but he's not using a real long lens
> > either for most his shots. Seems like most are taken with a short tele.
> > Very
> > short tele. Or cropped from a normal.
> > He does not appear to be annoying his subjects nor being voyeuristic in 
> > an
> > off centered way.
> > He's a photographer. In the sense that he's out there shooting every day.
> > Not staring at a separate monitor to the side of his computer with his 
> > eBay
> > bids on it live... All day.
> > He should try shooting at night.
> >
> >
> > [Rabs]
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
> >
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