Gary Clennan wrote:
This is one of those images that isn't really anything special but I love to look at it just for the B&W tones alone.
Gary - I agree: good photo. I would say that it's the pretty images of nice or "interesting" scenes and subjects that often are the most boring. As critic Jörg Colberg has written, a photograph doesn't have to be "about something."
_______________ http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/05/mitch-alland-alone-in-bangkok/%22]Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine[/URL]
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First time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜
stillshunter wrote:
First time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜
Glad you took the digital Leica plunge stillshunter and also posted that image (even if you neglect to say it was using MY lens 😉. For those of you in much colder current climes, the umbrella of course was the lady's counter-solar protection on this one of our hot summer days.
stillshunter wrote:
First time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜
lenticular11 wrote: stillshunter wroteFirst time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜
http://i.imgur.com/7dNqTgn.jpgGlad you took the digital Leica plunge stillshunter and also posted that image (even if you neglect to say it was using MY lens 😉. For those of you in much colder current climes, the umbrella of course was the lady's counter-solar protection on this one of our hot summer days.
Thanks for the warm welcome. Hope to add more of what arrives from the digital sorcery as time goes on.
Yes I should have been clearer about the fact that our own lenticular11 was being a little selfish and not letting go his lenses....a shame as that 25 needed a new home. Obviously. 😫 I joke of course. An absolute pleasure just chewing the fat and spinning the glass and metal with David. He’s one of the good ones. Nicer enough again to lend me a few lenses, which might make an appearance on here shortly.
A modest beauty shop near the little community living in shacks along the railway tracks in the Pratunam section of Bangkok. I’m standing in the street, at the open store front.
Mitch Alland wrote: Gary Clennan wroteThis is one of those images that isn't really anything special but I love to look at it just for the B&W tones alone.Gary - I agree: good photo. I would say that it's the pretty images of nice or "interesting" scenes and subjects that often are the most boring. As critic Jörg Colberg has written, a photograph doesn't have to be "about something."
_______________ http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/05/mitch-alland-alone-in-bangkok/%22]Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine[/URL]
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Thanks Mitch. You got me thinking now! That is a nice quote - I'll have to remember that one.
zhangyue wrote: stillshunter wroteFirst time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜
stillshunter wrote:
First time poster, I’ve been directed here from my local shooting buddy @lenticular11@@@
Grabbed this snap while meeting with the offending individual above to talk photography and play with gear. See I’d been talked into an M8 from our man above to progress me through my meagre past with film Ms, and so I was Getting a taste for the lust borne of immediate gratification with digital monsters. Anywho so I was midway through a lens change, just having popped on the Zeiss 25, and this scene unfolded before me. Only had time enough to lift the camera to shoulder height. No time to focus, set exposure or compose. Lucky we were playing with Leica. Street is in their blood. 😜