Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ha! I skipped boring Los Angeles and went straight to where the real art is - Berlin. Catch up fellers. http://blog.eyeem.com/?m=201007 Chris Williams www.zoeicaimages.net www.rebirthworkshops.com 504-231-6261 On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:36 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > Soon we will have poisoned the minds of the youth and they will not > be able to remember a time when you couldn't find a donut shop with > your camera and they'll reject anything with "interchangeable lenses". > > They'll run into some guy in a tilly hat and two Domke F2's and > they'll say "dude, where's your PHONE? how are you going to take any > PICTURES?" > > which actually reminds me of a serious story back during the 2000 > republican election I was covering a John McCain speech and in the > photo pit with the usual cast of characters, there was a woman from > AOL News. She had a small point and shoot, and a laptop with a > modem. Officials from the event kicked her out because her gear > didn't look professional enough, despite protests from all of us > that her photos were going to get seen by a lot more people, and a > lot sooner, than ours. > > And two years ago when photographing Chelsea Clinton there was a guy > next to me with a point & shoot who turned out to be from the > Philadelphia Daily News. Before I got back to my house and started > looking at my images, he had his photo up on the DN's web page. > > Times they are a-changin for sure. > > Did any of you get photos of the tornado in New York last night? > > kc > > > On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:10 PM, slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >> Very cool! I didn't know you were giving a class locally (more or >> less). >> I had mined planned for the past 6/8 months, but scheduling has >> been a problem (due to my work load). >> I didn't realize there was an interest in it, until folks started >> asking me out it. >> I finally thad to throw down a date. >> S.d. >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:30 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: >> >>> >>> LA is a hotbed when it comes to the cameraphone it seems. I just >>> taught a camera phone class there last weekend: >>> >>> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/617040.html >>> >>> two of the students in my class have blog posts up about it: >>> >>> http://rachelmccauleyphotography.blogspot.com/2010/09/iphonetography-with-kyle-cassidy.html >>> http://syndicated.livejournal.com/helioandsilver/44403.html >>> >>> >>> Pretty soon Slobodan and I will have taken over the photographic >>> world -- all you Leica are belong to us. Resistance is futile. >>> We're starting in LA, but we'll get to you all soon enough. >>> >>> kc > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information