[Leica] Using your powers for good instead of evil....

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Hi Kyle,

Your picture is great. What loves those two are. But how can people  
be so cruel. I read everything on the citykitties.org site and would  
love to adopt one of those. Unfortunately I can't qualify. You must  
commit to up to 18 years to care for these little guys. I'm afraid  
they would out live me.

Now back to your photo. Your equipment and setup is very unique. Are  
you that original with most of your shoots? I have an AFS 300mm f2.8  
Nikkor that I would never think of putting on my IIIc, even if I  
could. (I might be just one adapter short on my Viso III though).

Very original. Thanks.
Len




On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:42 PM, 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.
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2006/47/pirates.jpg
>
> i took this with a leica IIIa using a visoflex I and a series of  
> custom
> adapters to mount a canon 300 f 2.8 on it. i photographed the kittens
> from 20 yards away using a radio to talk to the off camera  
> assistants.*
>
> (i also saw agnes the three legged kitten while i was there. the day
> before they were going to cut off her leg, they noticed that she was
> moving it ever so slightly. a vet exam determined that they'll wait  
> two
> weeks to see if there's any hope of saving the leg, they might,
> possibly, be able to repair the damage in what i assume is somewhat  
> more
> sophisticated surgery.)
>
> kc
>
> whatever became of whinydog press? did she go digital and stop loving
> us? or am i not paying attention?
>
> *(leica d200 with a 50 1.8 at f 2.8, softbox directly over their heads
> piece of fabric from the thrift store. the bit about two off-camera
> assistants is true, but they had to do relatively little wrangling.
> these guys are pretty much happy wherever you put them.)
>
>
>
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