Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know where you live but I have experienced that submitting images at our local PPA here in the SF Bay area. Storied pictures and images from another culture don't get much love. There are contests on line through leading magazines that are more broad minded. Anyway it gets my vote. Good luck with it. David Sent from my iPad On Jan 26, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> wrote: > > Thank you, David, I do appreciate your comment. The fact is that I am into > contests etc. and that I've tried with this picture. Mind you, > appreciating photographs is a matter of culture and the cultural elements > in this picture are I think far from from what's expected here. > Interesting and also disappointing. JM >> From: daveenglish at icloud.com >> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:51:06 -0800 >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lost in contemplation of the American Dream >> >> Thats a great photo, many stories in there. The composition and tones >> work very well. Looks like a contest winner to me if you are into that >> sort of thing. >> Thanks for showing. >> David >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> My wife and I arrived there (The Chicago Art Institute) 15m before >>> closing time, they let us in for free, we rushed to get a look at THE >>> American Mona Lisa, I spotted this group of young people staring at the >>> odd couple, father and daughter, I couldn't resist grabbing my camera >>> and the result turned out to be this ... I don't know if picture-taking >>> is allowed in this museum but well, I did not use any flash!M6, Sum 35, >>> Acros 100 >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/chicago/000036.jpg.html> >>> Thanks for any C&CJean-Michel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information