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Subject: [Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:50:05 -0700
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On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> I'm glad Sonny pushed you.  Nice shots.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On Oct 01, 2009, at 1:29 PM, K Landdeck wrote:
>
>> Well I've not been posting often, but, Sonny's post got me  
>> thinking.  I had to admit to myself though that it -can- be hard to  
>> find photo opportunities in one's daily environment.  In the case  
>> of one's home, familiarity may not breed contempt, but it does  
>> often prevent me from really seeing.  It's too easy to go through  
>> the days on auto-pilot without noticing the things most familiar to  
>> myself.  Sonny's challenge reminded me that when I make the effort  
>> even the most familiar and mundane can be photographic fodder.   
>> Hence, I'm posting two images made at a location where I spend far  
>> too much time: the living room couch.  Neither was made with a  
>> Leica, however, and they're not masterpieces by any stretch of the  
>> imagination, just daily life moments when the light broke through  
>> my stupor, made me take notice and record it.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shudaizi/3557357781_8a93119c66_o.jpg.html
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shudaizi/3678413299_bffc21b25c_o.jpg.html


it seems you have a poetic eye that will find the meaningful images,  
no matter where...


thanks for showing these.


Steve


>>
>> Kevin Landdeck
>> =============
>> Only connect.
>> =============
>> bamboozld at gmail.com
>>
>> shudaizi photography:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shudaizi/
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Why don't you guys just get into a posting frenzy, so some of us  
>>> guys who
>>> post week in and week out won't feel so lonely out here?
>>>
>>> You know, you don't have to go halfway around the Earth on an  
>>> amazingly
>>> expensive holiday to take a flipping picture.  I sat in my easy  
>>> chair the
>>> other night and took one.
>>>
>>> Four shots, the first three blocks from my house, the second a  
>>> block further
>>> away, the next ten miles away, the last in my house. Get busy guys.
>>>
>>> Geeze.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy)
Message from bamboozld at gmail.com (K Landdeck) ([Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy)
Message from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor) ([Leica] was: Leica content, now get busy)