Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted and Don - Thanks for looking and commenting. I tend to agree with all of your comments. Suckered into (seems appropriate) looking at and thinking about light in photographic terms every time I walk by it. The history of photography is full of images where "light" is the subject. Case in point: the chapel window we all saw last week. Many of those "light" photographs strike me as getting at the very heart of of photography. Every time I look at Minor White's curtain image I'm moved by the composition and the light. Something magical can happens when we capture a visual "light effect" well with an artistic medium which relies on light to do the job. Words can't do justice to the subject of light. Drawing and painting have a difficult time with the ephemeral nature of light. I think many of Geebee's landscapes present "light" in a way where it becomes the subject and overpowers, in a positive way, the landscape itself. I'll either have to walk on the other side of Jackson St. or have another go at it. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > George, Don is being polite. :-) I'm sure what he should've said > was...." It's one of those situations that "WILL DRIVE YOU > ABSOLUTELY MAD TRYING TO MAKE AN UNDERSTANDABLE PHOTOGRAPH OUT OF > IT!" ;-) > > I still bet it's the colours/shadow catching your eye more than the > content!