Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Perestroika, 2014
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:15:42 -0800
References: <52D645D4.5080903@threshinc.com>

On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> I am cleaning up and reorganizing my Man-Cave, otherwise known as my den.  
> After 14 years of piling stuff up, it was time.  Note that this is a 
> gen-you-wine Leica photograph, taken with a bona fide Leica M8 body and an 
> authentic Leica 35/1.4 Aspffffffftheric lens.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11960567184/
> 
> Marvel at the spectacle of chaos and entropy glacially coalescing into 
> order. Note the cleverly balanced compositional elements of the scalene 
> triangle formed by the red dictionary on my computer table, the orange 
> "Magnum Degrees" book on the left and the four yellow Kodachrome boxes on 
> the right (the latter placed on my desk several years ago in prescient 
> anticipation of this moment).   Note also the profusion of ancient switch 
> boxes, modems, serial cables and SCSI stuff, the sad digital detritus of 
> passing time, scattered like mammoth bones in a Neanderthal cave dwelling, 
> evoking the swift obsolescence of the Information Age. We won't even 
> mention the piles of paper.
> 
> When I emerge from this epic struggle, dusty but victorious, I shall see 
> table surfaces again!  Some things shall go to the recycle bin, others to 
> the trash, still others to the waiting maws of stackable plastic storage 
> bins and drawers, part of the eternal cosmic cycle of of birth, death, 
> decay and rebirth.
> 
> Yeah. That's it.



a true genius of composition....in all things esp writing and photography.


s


> 
> --Peter
> (Hey, I posted a photo, didn't I?)
> 
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Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: Perestroika, 2014)
In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] IMG: Perestroika, 2014)