Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob Agree wholeheartedly with you post to Kyle but have a question. Are you and your wife vegetarians? Walt Bob Shaw wrote: > Kyle: > > Good Show! > > Mankind has a beginningless legacy of cruelty to animals - especially > if they are smaller than we are. > > Perhaps, if we took our frustrations out on each other, there would be > fewer of us around to torment animals. > > Like many people who are forced by events into doing the right thing > with animals, my wife and I have taken in, adopted or saved 5 large > dogs over the past ten years. Each of them facing very uncertain > fates and having suffered inexplicable cruelty. > > As a result of this, we believe our life spans have been extended, and > - hopefully - very small piece of mankind's regrettable karma with > animals has been offset. The gentle, comical, compelling, > unconditional love we have received from these creatures is beyond > description. > > Your photo is great; the gesture is greater. I'm thinking your eyes > have been opened wider and we may see more such shots from you. > > Please; show us more shots like this as the flow of life frames them > for you. No turning back, now! > > Regards, > > Bob in Seattle > > > > On Nov 14, 2006, at 9:52, R. Clayton McKee wrote: > > I'm disappointed. While you were doing this karmic work you > obviously didn't see fit to have these two guys named appropriately. > Obviously their destines call for them to be known as Lee and > Friedlander. > > (and if I were anywhere close to there they wouldn't be homeless. > GREAT shot.) > > > On 14 Nov 2006 at 12:42, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > >> lord knows i've photographed enough Bad Men in my life. so when the kind >> folks at www.citykitties.org called to say that someone had brought them >> two sick kittens they'd found in a bag in a dumpster, i jumped at the >> chance to improve my bad karma by photographing them for a greeting >> card. albert and phinnius had such bad eye infections they each had to >> have the remains of an eye removed in surgery. but they're total love >> bugs. > > -- > > > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >