Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/22

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Subject: [Leica] The Hoi Polloi
From: Clive at moss.net (Clive Moss)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:42:17 +0000
References: <36F5803B-4B44-411F-99F6-0103491410E1@acm.org>

Because a common idiom is "I am leaning over backwards to do X" has the
sense of "Trying very hard"?

Another one: Why do people far left and right of a group lean towards the
middle? They don't trust the photographer to frame the picture properly?


On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 4:54:32 PM Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Why do non-photographers (I don't mean LUG members who are amateurs)
> almost always lean backwards when taking a picture?
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> Herb
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