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Subject: [Leica] Farewell
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:23:44 +0200
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Thank you very much Bob! 

I agree your point of view in many aspects and now I?m looking to sell some 
outfit to go for new stuff and my next target is the Leica Monochrome. I 
want have back my M9 and Summilux 75 now in Wetzlar, I?m very happy using 
both. Just some days ago I?ve mounted my Elmarit 21mm in the camera, I find 
it a very amazing lens for street, I enjoy it even better than the 24mm. 
About the Noctilux, yes it is an amazing lens, I would be happy with a 1:0, 
I don?t think I need the 0.95 even to perfect! but IMHO the use of a Nocti 
for street is limited to a certain kind of pictures and on the street 
normally what is need is speed and this is not possible or not easy at 1:0. 
To work at 1.4 I already have the Summilux 50 v2.

Agree to try to capture other things, I shall open my eyes.

About changing my usual streets, I?m doing this too, but the street life 
generally is in other areas.

At this point I have two points to comment:

- Technology: What I?m seeing frequently in Facebook in our days, is more 
based using new lenses technology advantages than creativity, and IMHO if 
creativity shall be guided by the new possibilities of new lenses, I think 
we are in a wrong way, a fake way.

- Change the place of work, streets etc?, OK. Many years ago I?ve made my 
own effort and philosophy to try to discover what is interesting in my city 
and look to it with eyes as I was a visitor. Now I shall apply this to other 
places.

Thank you very much Bob for your help!

Thank you very much Steve too.

The only thing I don?t want to go is change my subjects for landscapes, 
studio ? I like the life.

Cheers
Lluis


 



El 15/07/2014, a las 18:58, rgacpa at gmail.com escribi?:

> Lluis,
> I want to echo what all have said: you are in a very special class of 
> street photographers that few attain. Your abilities are extraordinary and 
> rarely seen on this list and elsewhere. It is your calling.
> I think many of us have faced the same dilemma as you; I know I have. 
> Geoff and Steve and Ted have offered you wonderful advice. If I may add my 
> own I would recommend that:
> 1.  Leave the streets you are used to shooting for awhile. Find another 
> place, near or far does not matter. Change your venue and challenge 
> yourself.
> 2.  Buy a new or shoot with a new lens. Try the nocti again; perhaps a 21, 
> maybe a 75. Change will stimulate you and you will have to see differently.
> 3.  There are many sides to humanity. You capture the beautiful, the 
> lovely, the romantic. Try to capture something else: the dark, the 
> conflicting, the absurd. 
> I hope this helps. Sometimes it does for me.
> With the highest regard and respect,
> Bob 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Jul 14, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at 
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you my friend!
>> 
>> But if I?m sincere ? I have hesitated to post it, I?m a little bored to 
>> shot similar images, it?s too easy ? I would like shoot and show 
>> something else, I continue my walks on the streets and sometimes there 
>> are many things I think ?d?j? vu?, I don?t know if other friends doing 
>> street photography has experimented the same as I? ?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>>> El 14/07/2014, a las 22:57, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
>>> escribi?:
>>> 
>>> This is great Lluis. You got the right moment but also there are a lot of
>>> wonderful patterns of stripes and checks to find in the composition as 
>>> well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 15 July 2014 06:49, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisripoll/14469071698/>
>>>> 
>>>> Leica MP, Summilux 50 v2
>>>> APX 100
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Saludos cordiales
>>>> Lluis
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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