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Subject: [Leica] Using your powers for good instead of evil....
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Nov 14 12:09:51 2006
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Bob

Agree wholeheartedly with you post to Kyle but have a question. Are you 
and your wife vegetarians?

Walt

Bob Shaw wrote:

> Kyle:
>
> Good Show!
>
> Mankind has a beginningless legacy of cruelty to animals - especially 
> if they are smaller than we are.
>
> Perhaps, if we took our frustrations out on each other, there would be 
> fewer of us around to torment animals.
>
> Like many people who are forced by events into doing the right thing 
> with animals, my wife and I have taken in, adopted or saved 5 large 
> dogs over the past ten years.  Each of them facing very uncertain 
> fates and having suffered inexplicable cruelty.
>
> As a result of this, we believe our life spans have been extended, and 
> - hopefully - very small piece of mankind's regrettable karma with 
> animals has been offset.  The gentle, comical, compelling, 
> unconditional love we have received from these creatures is beyond 
> description.
>
> Your photo is great; the gesture is greater.  I'm thinking your eyes 
> have been opened wider and we may see more such shots from you.
>
> Please; show us more shots like this as the flow of life frames them 
> for you.  No turning back, now!
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob in Seattle
>
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 9:52, R. Clayton McKee wrote:
>
> I'm disappointed.  While you were doing this karmic work you
> obviously didn't see fit to have these two guys named appropriately.
> Obviously their destines call for them to be known as Lee and
> Friedlander.
>
> (and if I were anywhere close to there they wouldn't be homeless.
> GREAT shot.)
>
>
> On 14 Nov 2006 at 12:42, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>> lord knows i've photographed enough Bad Men in my life. so when the kind
>> folks at www.citykitties.org called to say that someone had brought them
>> two sick kittens they'd found in a bag in a dumpster, i jumped at the
>> chance to improve my bad karma by photographing them for a greeting
>> card. albert and phinnius had such bad eye infections they each had to
>> have the remains of an eye removed in surgery. but they're total love
>> bugs.
>
> -- 
>
>
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