Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Its everything about Leica she owns an M9 but her camera bag has > Nikon D60, with Nikkor 18-55 mm lens and 8 gb card > In it. And a point and shoot. Which she uses on her farm but in her street > shots she has them in other galleries on other sites and they are taken > with > her M9 for sure. > > Under "ABOUT" > It says: > In 2011, I got the photo bug again when my husband, O, dropped a Leica M9 > in > my lap. It was a gift I could not refuse. The camera said, ?Street, shoot > the streets!? So in August 2011 I began my odyssey into the world of street > photography. It?s a passion that now fills my hard drives with an > occasional > worthy image to look at. > > The first picture I clicked in he flicker URL says: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanglee > This photo was taken on March 11, 2012 using a Leica Camera AG M9. > > That's funny I thought by the micro contrast it was taken with a nikon kit > lens. > http://500px.com/photo/7820179 > On this website her first pic I see says: > Leica Camera AG M9 Digital Camera > Focal Length 35mm > Shutter Speed 1/500 sec > Aperture f/16 > ISO/Film 400 > Category Street > > Her third website she has listed is > http://www.wanderinglulu.com/ > This website was made before she launched her main website: > http://www.leicaliker.com > Perhaps it was made before she got her M9? > Regardless I'm going going to claim I can tell from a jpeg a few hundred > pix > wide that it was done with Leica glass or not. > It appears she is implying she's not going to be posting in wandering lulu > as of march as she's gone Leica. > > Here is a picture of her with her Nikon Nikon. > http://www.katekirkwood.com/#/about-me > > Me if I had an M9 in my closet it won't be in my closet. > It would never see my closet. > It would never even know I had a closet. I'd be out shooting with it every > day. Id bring it to the movies I'd bring it to the bathroom. But hope to > get as soon as possible the Digital M with no number at the end of it. > > So Leica Liker does not have her Leica shots in her Leica Liker site. > She has them in her flickr and her 500 Px Leica liker photos website. > > She seems to like Leica as a street town camera not a chicken and cow on > the > farm camera. She's too relaxed on the farm for the rangefinder. I think her > work is brilliant and its not the end of the world she doesn't use the M on > her farm. As far as I go she's off the hook. > But its a spacey organizing of pix having Nikon Nikon on the Like a Leica > site. You seem to be confusing and mixing up: Elizabeth Wang-Lee (who is the leicaliker that hosted the work of Kate Kirkwood) and Kate Kirkwood - the subject of this thread. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist