[Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Jeffery,

If you haven't already done so I'd encourage you to print, or have
printed, a set of your images. You have some really amazing photographs
that I think are powerful and unique. They're different from anything
else I've seen, and they'd make a great series for display somewhere.
Perhaps even a book of some type. I don't know who you contact about
getting your images placed, but someone on the LUG may. 

Your images are so good they need to be shared. They look good on-line,
but I'll be they'd look exceptional as fine art prints. These are the
type of images that will grow in importance over time.  

Keep photographing!

DaveR
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffery Smith [mailto:jsmith342@cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:21 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Lower 9th Ward - Another 20 images

You aren't the first person to tell me that the Amish would do a much
faster
job of rebuilding down here. What a shame. I have heard some folks say
that
the people from the 9th ward are living it up in a motel (at FEMA's
expense)
somewhere in Arkansas or Texas. As one who spent a month in a motel in
Houston, being home feels much better, even if home is not in good
shape. I
think that, with a little help from the state and feds, people could get
together and start rebuilding some of the homes in this place. The
problem
is that politics has gotten in the middle of the fray.

I'm a middle of the road dem, and don't think that people should expect
the
government to compensate them whenever something bad happens to them. I
just
wish we spent less money rebuilding other countries.

This weekend, I'm going to shoot some stuff at the Lakefront. Again,
it's a
mess!

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com