Frank,
Disturbing image. I'll be awhile getting past the
possible sensations. Umm! Umm! Umm!
May not rest well for a few nights.
Jack
--- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Q. What is the most unusual subject matter you
> have ever shot? The most
> > unique? Or the weirdest? Or simply the subject
> matter that you have had the hardest
> > time "capturing" (either because it was hard to
> get to, or timing, or
> > movement, or whatever)?
> >
> > Please expound.
>
> Well, you know, I thought and I thought and I
> thought, then I realized
> that I don't take photos of unusual subject matter;
> in fact, I think
> it's quite the opposite. I'd have to say that my
> thing (if I might be
> so pretentious as to have a "thing") is shooting the
> ordinary and
> mundane ("the exruciating minutae of everyday life"
> as Elaine Benis of
> Seinfeld once said) in a way that a few might find
> interesting, unique
> or pleasing.
>
> I don't do nekked people (with one exception, see
> below), don't do sex
> stuff (except that one of two ladies kissing - that
> was pretty hot,
> but not really unusual), don't do dead animals, bugs
> or that sort of
> stuff.
>
> I guess that the only unusual thing I've got is a
> couple of loonies on
> a "nature" ride:
>
>
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3538613&size=lg
>
> I suppose it's unusual in that you don't see it
> every day. It also
> strikes me as potentially dangerous (I would think
> if you hit a
> bump...). Not at all hygenic (I wouldn't want to
> touch those saddles
> - eewwwww!).
>
> As far as hardest to capture, I think just about
> everything is hard to
> capture. I'm never 100% satisfied with any shot I
> take, and I know
> it's hard for some to believe, but I'm constantly
> trying to improve my
> photography (although my definition of "improve" may
> differ from some
> <LOL>.
>
> Now to see what the other 50 or so posts say <g>
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
> --
> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri
> Cartier-Bresson
>
>
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