On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157617414669284/ > > There was a recent thread about "always carry a camera". When I spent > a few months in Singapore I brought my SLR, but always carried a > Vivitar point&shoot. The picture quality wasn't very good, but it was > infinitely better than missing pictures because I wasn't carrying my > SRT-101. > > While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet, and take classes > from one of the giants of the swing dance community, Frankie Manning, > who passed away this morning a month shy of his 95th birthday. > > This evening I scanned some of the pictures I got of > Frankie. Technically, and even aesthetically they are, well > snapshots. But it's funny how some of the photos that have the most > meaning to you are just that, snapshots.
I think these are more than just snapshots. Too bad about the technical quality (or rather lack of quality) of them; I think they're a wonderful chronicle of that day's event and activities. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
