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Subject: [Leica] Was Barcelona in color - now Tina's website
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:27:54 -0500
References: <BANLkTinpoSObOpEGdxgkZ2n3+OdTM7aAEg@mail.gmail.com><266D7491-512D-4558-AE61-106D82E14AA1@embarqmail.com><BANLkTi=fu1LW6=u4KhkBd5LP6nqp3xB6eg@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTikNq=p_CSX-AGesrxKF5F-ZjMNOpA@mail.gmail.com>

Just grab a large cup of coffee and relax!  The time will pass faster, and 
the throat will feel better.  ;~)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Was Barcelona in color - now Tina's website


>I came back from Columbia with strep throat that I caught from my grandson.
> My daughter picked 16 of the 1120 photos I took of the delivery that she
> deems suitable for publication.  They are putting siding on the house and
> I'm about to lose the internet for several hours.  And now everybody
> disagrees with me about B&W.
>
> I am not a happy camper today!!
>
> Tina
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I don't buy it.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I agree. If the pathos is in the shot, color will not distract.
>>
>> I've said this before, I guess we say things over and over here, but when 
>> I
>> was a kid starting out in photography, color was expensive and/or hard to
>> do, and b/w was cheap and easy.
>>
>> I would save up for some Kodachrome, and I only could shoot maybe two 
>> rolls
>> a year.
>>
>>  I lived in Germany; in high school I worked cleaning apartment 
>> stairwells
>> for my film money.  Later I washed dishes at the Officer's club.
>>
>>  I still look at some of my BW negatives and wish I had had color for 
>> them,
>> because it was such a beautiful place and it fell so damn flat in black 
>> and
>> white.
>>
>> So don't give me yer hotsy totsy intellectual stuff, give me color, 
>> colour
>> bright shiny chroma!
>>
>> Skin tones!  Pink Roses!   Red Blood!  Green Hills!   Red Breasted 
>> Robins!
>> Ginger Kittens!  Blonde Danish Girls!
>>
>> Yeah man!
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>
>> USA
>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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> 




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