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Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Jul 10 14:45:07 2005

I'm seeing well framed shots that capture - in most of them - a fluid,
evolving scene. But we probably see them differently.


On 7/10/05 2:53 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:

> What specifically are the qualities that make these more than random snap
> shots?  What do you mean when you say 'one of these images' and 'one or two
> like these'?   What are you looking at and seeing in them?
> 
> 
> 
>> But when looked at carefully, they're not at all. One might spend an
>> afternoon in this situation, as she did, taking random snapshots, and not
>> get one of these images. Or, if one was lucky taking random snap shots,
>> get
>> one or two like these; she's got at least 20 out of 200- which is a
>> shockingly high success rate.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/10/05 12:52 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Tamer than Clark, but very similar.   The amazing thing is they look, at
>>> first glance, like random snapshots.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Or  Larry Clark's stuff - She really has an eye.
>>>> 
>>>> On 7/10/05 10:30 AM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Reminds me of aspects of Frederic Wiseman's amazing film "Belfast".
>>>>> 
>>>>> bill h
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:35 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Leica] The great thing about teaching a workshop...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> ...is discovering that one of your students has IT...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This work was shot by a 24-year-old woman named Casey Splain; remember
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> name:
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album244
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> B. D.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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