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Subject: Re: [Leica] Stronger if they were in color.
From: "Gary Williams" <nasmformyzombie@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:47:22 -0400
References: <3B8A6B4E-9BEB-11D7-9A1E-000A9578C446@ncable.net.au>

Subject: [Leica] Stronger if they were in color.


> For those of you who thought the image would look better with colour,
> here is the Kodachrome, taken about 10 minutes earlier. I rushed
> through the rest of this film, so that I could get the b/w image:
>
> Which do you prefer?
>
> Colour:
>
> http://stairfirkin.com/Mayimages/colour15.jpg
>
> Or black and white:
>
> http://stairfirkin.com/Mayimages/Antelope001.jpg
>

I shoot 95% black and white, but I like the color image better, it has a
surreal, even ethereal character that the b&w image does not.

Now don't tell anyone I actually preferred the color image, I'll never hear
the end of it.  :-)

Gary

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In reply to: Message from Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> ([Leica] Stronger if they were in color.)