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Subject: [Leica] PESO: Priceless
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:49:01 -0400

Before Auschwitz the Jews had:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any
marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28

Me I'm tattoo free. As I always remember what my three ring binder looked
like the last day of school; vs. the first.
I make mistakes.


--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:28:21 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Priceless
> 
> Ted! Great to hear from you, and glad you enjoyed the shot.
> 
> At last I read, more than 38% of the adult US population has at least one
> tattoo.  It's not something that I understand--some of my older relatives
> received their tattoos involuntarily--but it's evidently a major part of 
> the
> culture.
> 
> This lady will be displaying her "Priceless" long after that MasterCard
> campaign (and likely Mastercard itself) has faded into oblivion.
> 
> Or, in the words of Groucho, courtesy of Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
> 
> Best,
> Jim Shulman
> Wynnewood, PA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> tedgrant at shaw.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:08 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Priceless
> 
> Jim Shulman showed:
> Subject: [Leica] PESO: Priceless
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/priceless+sm.jpg.html
>> Leica M3, DR Summicron, Acros 100
>  
> Hi  Jim 
> Wonderful! It's called the "ART OF OBSERVATION!" Like the tattoo isn't out
> there big in neon lights to catch your attention. You have it because you
> are an observer of life about you and it was seen! :-)
> 
> And you made an interesting photo recording of these times in the USA!
> 
> One of the things many of you probably don't relate to about our 
> photography
> in the same fashion as images of someone in their 82nd year, with 60 years
> of professionally recording life on this planet, that is?
> 
> We, all of us, are the recorders of how life is/was during our years doing
> what we love with great passion.... photography of life about us on a daily
> basis!
> 
> The tattoo as simple as it is, it's a small record of people during the 
> 2010
> year on this planet in the USA!
> 
> We are not just simple picture takers, we are the recorders of the history
> of our people every time we photograph an event whatever it maybe!
> 
> Think about that the next time you go "click!" If it weren't for us how 
> will
> the people of 3010 know what it was like in our lifetime? Yep that's a long
> time in the future. But we have all seen pictures of our countries and
> people from many hundreds of years ago. So why shouldn't we leave a legacy
> of who we are today?
> 
> Just a passing thought.
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted.
> 
> 
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