Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like there?s still a Stephen Holloway around in Basel - source LinkedIn Amities Philippe > Le 12 avr. 2020 ? 16:02, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > In the early 2000s there was a LuG member, Stephen Holloway, whose website > had a series of quite extraordinary photos taken with the 50/1.5 Summarit. > Bits of his site are archived: > https://web.archive.org/web/20010331125831/http://www.deepturtle.ch/ but > his other site is nowhere to be found. It?s sad that a lot of his work > seems ?lost? - I?ve not been able to find him elsewhere and lost contact. > He had a photo of an exquisite young woman on a tram in Zurich that was a > masterpiece. > > One of Stephen?s tactics was to walk backwards in public places with the > Summarit wide open and focused at 1m. As things came into view he > photographed them. It sounds like it wouldn?t work but it did. > > It?s one great tragedy of the digital age - we see so much, but so often it > doesn?t last. > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information