[Leica] paw 2006

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Steve Barbour showed:
>>> a PAW 2006...
>> > starts here...1 a and alt b
>> > two old friends...new years eve.
>> > http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-90737.html<<<<<
>
> Hi Steve,
> I like this very much as it fits your caption so well. They may or  
> may not be under the effect of bubbly but they certainly appear to  
> be enjoying themselves without any "put on because we're having our  
> picture taken airs!" :-)
>
> Well done, clean and simple!  As in "keep it simple stupid!"  
> because that's what makes pictures work better than all the BS  
> about crispy corners, tonality shadings and other espoused techie  
> garbage. It's the content that makes any picture's worth.
>
> I bet the Eisenstaedt picture of Gobbles eye burning glare could be  
> cut apart by the techies because the corners weren't as crisp or  
> the print tones may not have been perfectly correct. However, it's  
> an icon of the era without everything being Leica crispy edge to  
> edge perfect! But it's a fantastic photograph due to the content.
>
> It's in many of your pictures, it's the impact of the content that  
> grabs people, as should be in any photograph. Not every dang  
> twitchy sharp edged nit-picking little item some of these people  
> appear to hang their picture lives on.
>
> Keep 'em coming Steve, :-) last year was great! Lots of beauties!  
> So break the record this year is the challenge as that gives you  
> something to aim for rather than coming back with one nice PAW. You  
> want to kick ass every week! Hey you gotta have a reason, but  
> you've got the talent ;-)

thank you very much Ted...  now if I only had more time...



:-)   Steve




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