Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was inside the cathedral with plenty of foreign tourists and a lot of monks. In fact the cathedral nor the surrounding city had suffered at all otherwise I wouldn't have taken any pictures. The odd reaction gave a strange feeling to our whole group. Back in the bus an older gentleman who travelled with us gave me a small puppet dressed as a monk and who had a face of a monkey. The whole company in the bus loughed. Regards. Cedric 2013/3/17 philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>: > Cedric, > > Well about Assisi and the monks, I have a smattering of Italian and like > negotiation ;-) > > BTW: the new Pope is one of them I'm told. And won't resent having pictures > of him taken, regardless of the gear. > > As to shooting people in a place where a disaster has struck, I think you > need to be a professional of sorts to get accepted when people are > suffering, and also that they must feel that the pictures will help, else > they might rightly conclude it is just voyeurism. Your Franciscan may have > been grieving with the locals? > > As to sleeping - I work indoors most of the year, and am so happy to > unleash > my urge for pictures when I get out that, and thanks to digital I never > count how many takes I get, well, until I'm back and have to process them > ... ;-) > > Thanks you in any case for your interest and nice comments > Amiti?s > Philippe > > > > > Le 17 mars 13 ? 11:47, Cedric Agie a ?crit : > > >> Same remark and question as for NYC. About your wonderfull pictures >> taken in Italy, again did you ever eat and sleep?. >> Didn't you have problems with a monk in Assisi? A saw a picture with a >> monk inspecting bags. >> More than 20 years ago there was a severe earthquake just a week after >> we came back from Italy. >> The year after we went back to the same region. Most Italians were >> quite nervous at the time >> I was quietly taking pictures with my Leica (and Leitz tripod) inside >> the cathedral in Assisi, when a monk saw me. >> He jumped at me screaming wildly trying to grasp my Leica. >> When he saw he was about to get my Leitz tripod (the one with the >> heavy boldhead) in his face he calmed down. >> Another monk pushed him firmly away asking me politely to stop taking >> pictures. >> >> Regards. >> >> Cedric >> >> >> 2013/3/17 Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>: >>> >>> That's a very nice one, I do not remember ever seeing the building from >>> that vantage point. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> YNWA >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:23 AM, philippe.amard wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/NYC-2013/NYC-ARCH-Flat+Iron-2180.jpg.html >>>> >>>> Bien cordialement de Metz >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to >>>> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. >>>> >>>> NO ARCHIVE >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the > eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information