[Leica] Some new pics from Barcelona

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Luis Ripoll offered:
Subject: [Leica] Some new pics from Barcelona
> These ones with Summicron 35
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/070104-36w.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/070104-30w.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/070104-32w.jpg.html
> and this one, I think with Summilux 75, with TCN400
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/061109-29w.jpg.html

Luis,
Very nice work illustrating your eye for people around the city.

However I looked in your gallery and found a photograph of an elderly lady 
reading a magazine on what appears a park bench or street bench.

Picture number.... 070103-21w

I must have missed it when you originally posted it. But what this picture 
illustrates far more than an interesting photograph is a wonderful teaching 
effort.

It illustrates what I've said for years, here on list and in lectures. If 
one really is interested in people photography the best way to learn how and 
to over come the fear of doing so is, sit on one end of a park bench while a 
complete stranger is sitting at the other!

Then take a picture of the stranger without he or she knowing you've done 
it. :-)

So in your picture it's the perfect example of using that method, although 
you may not be sitting, you are standing extremely close to the subject. And 
taken her picture, certainly in this one without her knowing you've done it. 
Excellent moment.

Fascinating "street photograph!" well done mon ami. :-)

ted