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Subject: [Leica] some fine work here
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:11:12 +0530
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Tina,
That shot is brilliant - right up there with my favorite Taj Mahal
photograph, by Steve McCurry:

http://www.cavaliergalleries.com/html/Detail.asp?WorkInvNum=8104&artistname=Steve%20McCurry&whatpage=artist

This cannot be taken nowadays, as the railway line has since been closed.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
wrote:
> I like the tourists photos. ?I wish I could spend enough time at the Taj
> Mahal for it to be monotonous! ?Here is my take on it:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/080205_326_0389BW.jpg.html
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/080205_326_0389BW.jpg.html>Tina
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It is these questions that I constantly struggle and have difficulty
>> with when I am traveling! On my last trip to the Taj Mahal, I decided
>> to focus on other tourists and unusual perspectives:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/taj/
>>
>> To find something new in some place that has been photographed a
>> zillion times is not easy - but when it does not come off the total
>> effect can be monotonous, however technically proficient the
>> photographs may be.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Which returns us to the questions:
>> >
>> > 1) Do we have new things to say visually?
>> > 2) Do we have new ways to present subjects we've seen so often before?
>> > 3) New points of view?
>> > 4) Do these questions matter?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > George Lottermoser
>> > george at imagist.com
>> > http://www.imagist.com
>> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>> >
>> >> Nice photos, familiar place! The only problem is that these are the
>> >> same photos that all non-Indians see when they come here, it gets very
>> >> monotonous....
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Jayanand
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
>> >> mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> <
>> http://blog.leica-camera.com/interview/aaron-greenman-finding-the-beauty-under-the-grime/
>> >
>> >
>> >
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