Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> On 5/17/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> For anyone who's interested, and who has something like 11 min >>> and 46 >>> seconds to kill....there's a slide show of my T stuff up - with >>> music - at >>> >>> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com/Tshow hi BD here's my 2 cents... some of the photos are stunning/wonderful but I find they are often too very repetitious saying the same thing, and the music I find makes the whole "show" kind of hokie sp? I feel that a few well chosen photos seen in silence tells the tale quite well... if indeed it needs to be told.. I am not sure that it is so surprising or unusual a thought that people are very isolated on the subway... they are isolated everywhere...they can live adjacent in an appartment building for 30 years without knowing their neighbors... After riding the metro in Paris many times very recently and much earlier... entirely the same...people packed like sardines... the same look on their faces... actually now very often some soul on the metro tries to crack the ice and entertain for some change with plaintive russian singing, a trumpet serenade, a bach violin sonata against this somber atmosphere... actually gives me goose bumps, and this is really something to behold with the mixed reactions and some people squirming with discomfort... (Once I got my briefcase caught between a woman's legs, in a frantic attempt to exit a jammed metro car, managed to extricate myself and the briefcase, and leave the metro car all with nary a word nor any real eye contact with the very nonchalant woman...) I am afraid if this is news, it's old and rewarmed... ...so I am sorry to pee on your parade... but I would choose very few of your wonderful images carefully, and keep it simple... Steve