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Subject: [Leica] if i met myself, i'd ask for my autograph
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Feb 24 09:26:55 2006

The late, andmystudentswouldsaynotatalllamented Susan Sontag would certainly
say so. ;-)


On 2/24/06 11:57 AM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:

> Heck, we're all shooters, ain't we?
> 
> (anon)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michiel Fokkema" <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] if i met myself, i'd ask for my autograph
> 
> 
>> kyle cassidy wrote:
>>> really. the portrait project continues. shockingly, in the last three
>>> days i've gotten about a hundred emails from people who want to
>>> participate. this is going to turn into a road trip. well, multiple road
>>> trips. i think my first will be to georgia via d.c. -- but that's a
>>> couple months away. in the meantime -- philly area.
>>> 
>>> anthony, an ex marine sniper, the lovely portia, and their two dogs, yumi
>>> and leeloo.
>>> 
>>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/ago/portia-anthony/portia-ant-4.jpg
>>> 
>>> i brought less lighting than i needed. i'm not going to make that mistake
>>> again. i'd been doing nicely with one light, but the setup of the shot i
>>> wanted here called for another one behind the bookshelf which i just
>>> didn't have. ouch. well. live and learn.
>>> 
>>> kc
>> 
>> I'm shocked.
>> When seeing the first picture with the kid I thought you were joking. Now
>> seeing this one it seems to be serious and this are real people caressing
>> their weapons as we do our Leica's. I just hope they don't shoot their
>> weapons as often as I do my Leica.
>> But maybe this will be meant as an society critical range of pictures and
>> I'm just missing the point.
>> Nice pictures though, but what's on it scares me.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Michiel Fokkema
>> 
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