Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you should keep it, but give it a severe crop to get rid of the extraneous playground equipment. a commentary on the whole birth anxiety thing. I like the black and white version. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > This was a strange one. Sometimes you don't know what you're going > to get. During our walk Sunday, we went past a playground. On the > slide, I saw a tiny leg peeking out into the sunlight, hesitating. > I thought it was cute, I just raised my camera focused and shot. > > I was wearing sunglasses, so I didn't see into the shadows. Later I > discovered I'd captured the image of a little girl who was very > afraid of what she was about to do. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitate-w.jpg.html > > It's even more disturbing in black-and-white. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1003231SlideHesitateBW-w.jpg.html > > There's something kind of Diane Arbus-ish about this one. The > emotion is real, but I'm not sure if I want to keep this one up. > What do you think? > > M8, 50 Summicron. B&W version with a purple-blue digital filter to > lighten the slide somewhat. > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information