[Leica] was eyeliner, now shooting through it

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

Hey Don,
 I have had the oddest experience, several times, of
those kind of days where 99% of the shots were sheer
drek, and then the one is left left is something so
extraodinary that I can't believe I took it, something
I can't imagine, or even remember, 'seeing'
beforehand.  And that's kind of unnerving- the
implication that you have to 'lose it' to 'get it', so
to speak.
Arche

--- Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> Arche,
> The solution to the no pictures today vision is to
> start taking pictures.
> Once the brain realizes that you are going to put it
> to work you will start
> to see images again.  You might waste a couple of
> rolls, but then you don't
> have to deveolp them right away.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 9/5/06, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ted wrote:
> > >I was recently told by one of my grandson's it's
> the
> > fashion to have >some
> > >kind of piercing showing these days. That was
> when I
> > saw him with >this
> > >protruding piece of metal sticking through his
> lip.
> > >
> > >When I first saw him after many months of being
> away
> > I immediately >played
> > >dumb and asked. "Oh my gosh Chris what happened
> when
> > you fell on >your face?"
> > >Knowing full well of course it was a damn
> piercing
> > job.
> >
> > Careful there Ted, you don't want to give him an
> > excuse to write you off as a codger. At least,
> that's
> > the way my mind worked 35 years ago when I had
> hair
> > halfway to my ass - it irked my dad no end. Of
> course,
> > now I have no hair. I wonder what the karmic
> > retribution for peircing-out-of-snottiness is?
> Tooth
> > loss to extreme cavities?
> >
> > >Now Arche back to your series! :-)
> > >
> > >It's real down home documentive material much
> like we
> > saw back in >the 50's &
> > >'60's. Your straight forward style is what makes
> it
> > work so well. Each >shot
> > >has it's own tale of being at the fair showing in
> > many cases the >mental and
> > >emotional feelings of the subjects.
> > >
> > >This is a topic one can work on year after year
> and
> > rarely have a >repeat
> > >image. And if you do? Well it's called "editing
> > fiercely" constantly
> > >building the series to be better and better.
> > >
> > >I'd not throw any away, that is unless it's so
> > obviously a miss it goes. >But
> > >what might interest you today, maybe far more
> > interesting 50 or 100 >years
> > >from now.
> > >So for the moment I'd keep shooting the fall
> fairs as
> > they come.
> >
> > The big State Fair starts this weekend, and I'm
> > clearing the deck to have two days to shoot in.
> > It's a stunning compliment to be compared to the
> sort
> > of work done in the '50's & '60's, which I see as
> a
> > golden age for that kind of photography; I hope in
> the
> > long run I can measure up to it. A good, true
> > photograph has its own time, as you know, and have
> > proven again and again.
> >
> > >I went to one here on the Island yesterday,
> > absolutely not in the right
> > >frame of mind to be anywhere and it was a
> disaster
> > which became a >"select
> > >all-delete all" when I came home! :-(
> > >
> > >It happens to all of us some days, even though
> it's
> > fun. Yesterday? A >black
> > >hole! :-( Damn good thing it wasn't a paid
> > assignment! :-(
> >
> > Yeah, there's those days where you walk around and
> > just can't see anything. Its as if you've gone
> blind,
> > even though you KNOW there's always a shot, but
> you
> > just can't see it. One day on, the next day
> absolute
> > crap, a small death.
> >
> > >So once again after looking through yours I felt
> > better as yer doing a >fine
> > >shoot and motivated me to have another go next
> week.
> > Thanks. Well >done mon
> > >ami!
> > >
> > >ted
> >
> > All Right! The next roll is golden - let's get off
> our
> > asses and SHOOT! I'll be thinking of you while I'm
> at
> > it,
> > Arche
> >
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