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Subject: [Leica] An outstanding photographer
From: gwpics at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 08:52:30 +0000
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I have to agree with you Herbert, she has some very nice images there.

Gerry

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On 07/12/2013 02:49, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> A web site that I visit daily is called ?Cat of the Day?. Each day, there 
> is a submission from some besotted cat owner which includes at least one 
> picture of the cat and a narrative about same. I think the site owner is a 
> bit selective, because I?ve never seen a picture there that was not needle 
> short. Not so selective about color balance; some times two pictures of 
> the same cat in actuality show two different colors of cat.
>
> Anyway, today, at the end of the narrative about her Maine Coon, was a 
> statement that she is a photographer and that, of course, her cat is a 
> favorite subject. There then appeared a link to her web site, and I was 
> curious enough to visit it. I was absolutely stunned. Her photographs are 
> so great that I felt I had to tell the LUG. I mean, how many people can 
> make a picture that grabs you out of nothing but four eggs? I think if you 
> just look at her home page, you?ll see why I was so taken.
>
> http://lauramacky.smugmug.com/
>
> BTW, somewhere in her blogs I saw a statement that she took up photography 
> only a few years ago and had to first learn how to use a camera. I guess 
> there is no substitute for talent.
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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