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Subject: [Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 18 13:59:42 2008

Thanks, Ted - Scott hasn't even had to wear shoes he's followed so closely
in the old fella's foot steps.:-)


On 1/18/08 4:40 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> B.D. offered:
> 
> Subject: [Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.
> 
> Finally...I have posted a half-dozen of my son Ben's medium and large 
> format
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> images taken while wandering around the Boston T tunnels in 1999 and 2000
> after the trains stopped running at night. These are long time 
> exposures,lit
> only by the dim bulbs a rider sees flicker by when riding the train
> 
> through what seems to be an inky-dark tunnel.
> 
> For my upcoming show at the Brookline Art Gallery I'll be hanging about two
> 
> dozen 8.5x11" black and white prints of from my series of T riders, and 
> will
> 
> 'frame' those prints with two of Ben's color 40x40s of the tunnels.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bdcolen/BEN+COLEN/
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bdcolen/BEN+COLEN/%3c%3c> <<
> 
> Hi B.D.,
> 
> Unless there's a LUG father or two  who've not told us about a son or
> daughter professional photographer in their family. You and I have to be 
> the
> two luckiest members with the good fortune having a son professional
> following in our foot steps. :-)
> 
> Maybe Ben and Scott might get together some day on a shoot? :-) Cool! :-)
> 
> Ben the director of Photography for Girl Skateboard - And Scott the 
> shooter.
> :-)
> 
> I think they'd make a great team given Scott's years as a sports
> photographer!
> 
> And obviously Ben's talent they'd make a very fine team. It's a small world
> these days one never knows.
> 
> For what it's worth Ben might be interested in Scott's photography
> experience from the Olympics and other national sports.  So here's his
> website http://www.sixsixsix.ca/
> 
> ted
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