Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, That shot is brilliant - right up there with my favorite Taj Mahal photograph, by Steve McCurry: http://www.cavaliergalleries.com/html/Detail.asp?WorkInvNum=8104&artistname=Steve%20McCurry&whatpage=artist This cannot be taken nowadays, as the railway line has since been closed. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I like the tourists photos. ?I wish I could spend enough time at the Taj > Mahal for it to be monotonous! ?Here is my take on it: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/080205_326_0389BW.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/080205_326_0389BW.jpg.html>Tina > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> It is these questions that I constantly struggle and have difficulty >> with when I am traveling! On my last trip to the Taj Mahal, I decided >> to focus on other tourists and unusual perspectives: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/taj/ >> >> To find something new in some place that has been photographed a >> zillion times is not easy - but when it does not come off the total >> effect can be monotonous, however technically proficient the >> photographs may be. >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> >> wrote: >> > Which returns us to the questions: >> > >> > 1) Do we have new things to say visually? >> > 2) Do we have new ways to present subjects we've seen so often before? >> > 3) New points of view? >> > 4) Do these questions matter? >> > >> > Regards, >> > George Lottermoser >> > george at imagist.com >> > http://www.imagist.com >> > http://www.imagist.com/blog >> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> > >> >> Nice photos, familiar place! The only problem is that these are the >> >> same photos that all non-Indians see when they come here, it gets very >> >> monotonous.... >> >> Cheers >> >> Jayanand >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at >> >> mac.com> >> wrote: >> >>> < >> http://blog.leica-camera.com/interview/aaron-greenman-finding-the-beauty-under-the-grime/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >