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Re: [OM] i'm the heretic - was lenses and aperture rings

Subject: Re: [OM] i'm the heretic - was lenses and aperture rings
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:39:27 -0500
Don't get me wrong.  The images are stunning. So much so that, for the first
time, I shared a link with my wife. She's not into photography (at all!),
but was interested in the photos.  Haven't gotten her reaction yet.

Tom

> Tom wrote;
>
> > Wow, those images are, well, disturbing.......
> > - ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dizel" <webmaster@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [OM] i'm the heretic - was lenses and aperture rings
> >
> > > That URL isn't going to work.  192.168 is inside your house -- I
assume you
> > > use a router.  It's not a public address on the internet.
> >
> > Stupid me! :) Working too long today :)Should be:
> > http://watteau.neurosoft.net/lovehate/4.htm
> > Sorry!
> > - -- 
>
> While I agree that Dizel has created some disturbing images there, he HAS
> created some images of a kind that very few of us have displayed within
the
> confines of this group in the short 18 months I have been here.
>
> With few exceptions (Skip, for people in the street, Damon, and Bolty,
come
> to mind) few of us go beyond the realms of landscapes, realistic animals
and
> plants, architecture, and so on. And I must not forget also Ira Kahn and
his
> amazing shot in the last winter exchange ( NB still a few shots to be sent
to
> Bob Gries for the web show ! hint hint) he's done others similar I've
seen.
>
> (Diversion - I just did a little search and see what I came up with -
explains
> the inventiveness of the Ira shots we have seen in the group
>
> http://www.wetdesign.com/irakahn.html
> http://www.halffg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/halffg/gall04.html
> http://www.geocities.com/taws9750/figures.html
> http://ndm.si.edu/EXHIBITIONS/fountains/fountains_vii.htm )
>
> Back on topic
>
> But very few of us do street / journalism / people art photography. The
sort of
> work that Le*ca's seem to have been designed for.
>
> How many of us have spent the time planning and carrying out a photo
> session on a person or people, or parts thereof, to the degree that George
> did for his Horsetail Falls shots?
>
> What am I saying? I'm as hide-bound as any of us when it comes to people
> photos, so I welcome somebody who shows us new (for this group) subject
> matter and techniques. Outside the square.
>
> (PS, if I've missed somebody's person shot, my apologies; it's the general
> thrust of the argument that is important and I think I have that right)
>
> Brian
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