Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Love/Hate - PhotoPerWeek Club
From: Bernard <4829.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:32:51 +0400

BOB KRAMER wrote:

>  I do a fair amount of shooting in a small commercial area in my neighborhood
> called Little Five Points (L5P), home to many interesting and intriguing
> sub-cultures (slackers, punk rockers, the homeless, disenfranchised 'Nam vets,
> etc.), that draw suburban tourists and Georgia State photography students like
> flies.  The kind of rank amateurs that look for the sensational, so they can
> dash back to their suburban enclave communities and say to their buds, "Hey
> Billy Bob, check out their freaks in downtown Atlanta I saw!".  Or the
> photography students taking the same old tired homeless dude photos.

And your intentions are of course very very different for showing those folks to
this here group of wealthy individuals? :-)

>  Here's last weeks shots:
>
> http://www.mindspring.com/~rnkramer/PhotoWeekIndex.html

I like it, but I like the alternative considerably better! The alternative is a
really good picture in my book.

Thanks for sharing,
Bernard