Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]a thoughtful, deeply provocative, and insightful set of thoughts Mark, on various levels...I will try to respond/react to these...and I inserted the url for each photo in place... "there is something to be said for powerful underware..." sb... *** > Steve Barbour wrote: > > > > > Ted, working on this and then hearing your comments, along with > > those > > > of Tina and Nathan, was valuable ... I was too fixated on having > ><Snip> > > And now > for a different opinion... > > This is a very good picture of often done well subject matter. Gripping: > doctors saving critically ill babies lives. It's hard to beat that. > You've got hard competition. Unless the nurse at the head of the bed is > really Superwomen. Then the scales balance in the other direction for everybody. ***this is the cropped one... http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-54555.html the individual caring for the infant is a super PICU nurse, no doc is in the photo, but he's the guy with the camera, and with no white coat, I never wear one... > > The way I'd see it as a kid is if the doctor didn't work out it'd be > great to have Superwomen as a backup for obvious reasons (x ray vision > and laser surgery possible with heat vision). > > Such is the side of pediatric medicine we don't often see and would not > often predict. > > Sure the doctors are great but the Nurses ARE REALLY SUPERHEROS! > > If i ran the perdiatric hospital I'd consider having all the doctors > dress in super heros' outfits because that's what they are in effect > anyway in the eyes of their patients. > > For many adults it's the doctors white outfits which are the superhero > costumes as it's the doctors who are the superhero's again.. The masks > are white masks over their mouths. Superman has nothing over their white > clad super doctor who grasped their life out of the clutches of death at > the very last moment. They might as well be able to fly it wouldn't make > much difference. > > > Cropping makes for a more intense and direct picture but leaving that > strange element of whimsey in there in the first place which you saw > makes for a picture which got MY attention and which I'd not forget for > a long time I don't think. A picture which exists on different levels.... ***this is the URL for the original pic, which caught my eyes cus...nurse caring for infant, mother separated, afraid, looking intense, wearing the superman shirt, and with a blanket over her shoulders...clearly mother is integral, yet separated/even isolated... http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-54546.html > But sometimes you don't need that. Like for a very small newspaper picture. > But your first instinct was to get that! > Or was it unpractical to get in close and exclude that element? > No 90's or 75's? at hand? ***correct.... > > Mark Rabiner > > If the nurse was really Mom as it now seems it would still be from her > standpoint reassuring having her super uniform under her gown. And to a > kid of course not to a baby I'd think. It was the Mother then who felt > reassured by having a red super S on her chest. She wore it to get her > though the day. > There's something to be said for powerful underwear. ***yes Mark ...you are right on!! this was the day of surgery, she wore it to get her through the day...there is something to be said for powerful underwear... and how do you convey all this in an image? thanks, Steve Steve Barbour kididdoc@cox.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html