Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cuba has been "discovered" some years ago, and most photographs from there show a touristy sameness that is getting monotonous. Time to go to other countries, and show your tourist snapshots, before they, too, lose their novelty value, like Myanmar or Iran.....:-) Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 06-Mar-2016, at 11:51, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > > Well, as for colors, all the pictures from that exhibition are B&W. > > The other one, from Murcia, is in color. > > There are many photographs from Cuba these days, but the percentage of > good ones is not high. These are good, IMO. > > Finally, having been born and lived the first 11 years of my life in a > Communist country, I can assure you that the Cubans look forward to the > arrival of Starbucks, Safeway, modern cars etc. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 06 Mar 2016, at 01:23, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: >> >> No reflection on the exhibit shown, which is quite nice, but any images >> taken in Cuba seem to be winning formula.... >> >> ......Mind you, I am jealous,,,,, >> >> But the place looks like every photographer of people, old stuff, and >> color >> should go there.... before us Americans ruin the place with Starbucks, >> Safeway, B of A., and "modern" color palettes of Gray, Mauve, and >> Taupe..... >> >> Frank Filippone >> Red735i at verizon.net >> >> Alicante has decided to have a photography festival, I supposed trying to >> emulate cities like Madrid and Perpignan. So today I went to see four >> exhibitions. Two of them were quite indifferent, but these two I really >> liked: >> >> http://www.mayoralphotography.com/entre-dos-aguas-2/ >> >> http://gustavoaleman.net/No-soy-de-aqui >> >> Both are the kind of photography I like to do, and the first one very much >> made me think of our own Lluis. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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