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Subject: [Leica] Farewell
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:04:18 -0700
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On Jul 15, 2014, at 9:58 AM, rgacpa at gmail.com wrote:

> Lluis,
> I want to echo what all have said: you are in a very special class of 
> street photographers that few attain. Your abilities are extraordinary and 
> rarely seen on this list and elsewhere. It is your calling.
> I think many of us have faced the same dilemma as you; I know I have. 
> Geoff and Steve and Ted have offered you wonderful advice. If I may add my 
> own I would recommend that:
> 1.  Leave the streets you are used to shooting for awhile. Find another 
> place, near or far does not matter. Change your venue and challenge 
> yourself.
> 2.  Buy a new or shoot with a new lens. Try the nocti again; perhaps a 21, 
> maybe a 75. Change will stimulate you and you will have to see differently.
> 3.  There are many sides to humanity. You capture the beautiful, the 
> lovely, the romantic. Try to capture something else: the dark, the 
> conflicting, the absurd. 
> I hope this helps. Sometimes it does for me.
> With the highest regard and respect,
> Bob 


I totally agree with Bob's very insightfull advice.


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> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Jul 14, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at 
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you my friend!
>> 
>> But if I?m sincere ? I have hesitated to post it, I?m a little bored to 
>> shot similar images, it?s too easy ? I would like shoot and show 
>> something else, I continue my walks on the streets and sometimes there 
>> are many things I think ?d?j? vu?, I don?t know if other friends doing 
>> street photography has experimented the same as I? ?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>>> El 14/07/2014, a las 22:57, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
>>> escribi?:
>>> 
>>> This is great Lluis. You got the right moment but also there are a lot of
>>> wonderful patterns of stripes and checks to find in the composition as 
>>> well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 15 July 2014 06:49, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisripoll/14469071698/>
>>>> 
>>>> Leica MP, Summilux 50 v2
>>>> APX 100
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Saludos cordiales
>>>> Lluis
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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