> > > > Perhaps it's not OT regarding photography, but there's no Pentax > > content: > > > > http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/thank_you_for_smoking.html > > > > http://tinyurl.com/4qun6c > > > > I hate revisionist history, even if old practices are now > officially > > frowned > > upon. If the picture was no good in its original form then they > > shouldn't > > have used it at all. > > > > regards, Anthony Farr > > > Different background, different angle on guitar neck, > different chord > fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible
> in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe > the guy > moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down > the butt. Just as plausible. > Or maybe he left it at the crossroads... According to the correspondence lower down, that's the only known photograph of Robert Johnson. The stamp looks like a photo but maybe, like the Bette Davis picture, it's a painting or something - looks like it to me anyway. It's strange how quickly attitudes to smoking have changed. I gave up over 15 years ago, after smoking for about 20. A few days ago I mentioned in passing something about smoking at my desk to one of my younger colleagues and he was aghast at the thought of people smoking in the office. He didn't know it had ever been legal, let alone normal, but if I left work without a medium-sized Alp of fag-ends in my ashtray I felt as though I hadn't been trying hard enough. Now it already feels strange being in countries where smoking is allowed in public places such as bars and restaurants. When they make stamps of Keith Richard I wonder if they'll airbrush the cigarette out of his machine head. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
