Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] New old pictures
From: wharting at verizon.net (bill harting)
Date: Sun Sep 26 18:42:53 2004
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBAEFPFOAA.phong@doan-ltd.com>

Thanks to you Luis and Phong, for your responses. The monk indeed had a 
cigarette in his hand -- cigarettes were ubiquitous in Thailand, including 
in my own pocket, at the time. And Phong, I am awaiting your photoessay, 
Rice and Rain (your title).

bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] New old pictures


> bill harting wrote:
>> I've posted some pictures on the LUG gallery
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album55 to which I invite attention and on
>> which I invite comment. All were taken 1969 - '70, M3 or M4, in Thailand.
>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Not Vietnam, but close enough in the feelings
> you capture that make me quite homesick.
> And your photography has feelings.
> Whatever you were doing in Thailand, you were
> very close to the people for sure.  And it's wonderful
> that you still have the negatives from that time.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album55/C690102
> You were that close to the kids, and they were not clamoring
> around you.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album55/R692301
> Is that a cigarette in the monk's hand, or a pen ?
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album55/R700001
> Ah, the rain.  The things that makes you homesick often
> are not what you might guess at first.
>
> Excellent and varied composition (I am taking notes) in
> many of them.
>
> Long ago and far away, indeed.  Thanks for posting.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Phong
>
>
>
>
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