Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm going to bite the bullet tomorrow or next week and get out my Olympus E-1 with two zoom lenses. Most of the shots were difficult to frame because of the limited space to walk around (it rained like hell last night, and everything was muddy with a gooey disgusting black mud that was extremely slippery...my sneakers had to be powersprayed this afternoon). But this is literally an entire subdivision of several square miles turned on its head. I've got a brick of Verichrome Pan that isn't getting any younger. Maybe some carefully considered shots with a Fuji 670 on a tripod is in order. I think I need to park and just walk for a few hours. One could shoot an entire roll of 36 without walking more than 25 feet. It's bad. And you're right...St. Bernard and Plaquemines are both bad. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:55 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward At 08:42 PM 1/21/2006, you wrote: >I spent an hour shooting two rolls of film in the lower 9th ward this >afternoon. I am not optimistic that anything will be of much interest. >There is so much devastation, it just looks like one might expect after >a nuclear bomb detonating 20 miles away. > >Jeffery Smith Jeffery - I think it's important to get out there and document whatever is going on. It may not look like it's important now, but I doubt there are many photographers who have the access and knowledge that you do about New Orleans now and before Katrina. Since you know what was before and what is now, your vision will be more important than anybody else's who might be there to only exploit what has happened since Katrina. I lived south of New Orleans for a couple of years but I know that I couldn't do justice to documenting what was and is now New Orleans. I'd like to go back to Plaquemines Parish and see what is left but I don't expect that there will be much. Get out there with your camera whether you think it's of interest or not. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information