Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/29

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Subject: Re: SV: [Leica] Daily dose of Spring #2
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:49:16 -0800
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I'd just like to say that having checked the image again it's not as
though the flag was even in the BACKGROUND.
It's way out of focus image was visible THROUGH the magnolia bush flowers/
If the color saturation of the red and blue were not seemingly jacked up
you'd not notice it at all.
Of if the shot were done in black and white.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1391486

I think in  a less political time this shot could be showed to a group
of people who would discuss it an make no mention of the fuzzy flag in
the deep background at all. It could just wouldn't strike them as being
all that important in the shot.

Basically this shot is about a flag being shown in a "beauty" flower
situation with whole lot of restraint.

The shot says to me "yes we have Spring. But we also have issues of
national importance going on. World importance too."

It does the photographer no credit, and he deserves more to call this
shot a "flag waving" shot as it clearly is not.



Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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