> > I really like #1 and #4 - great shots. How was the London Street > Photography Exhibit? I was planning to enter it but never got round to > it. >
Thanks. The exhibition is excellent - very interesting. I don't think it's something you could enter - it's taken from the collection of the Museum of London. It traces street photography in London from the first days of photography up to the present. Because it's drawn from their collection it's not a comprehensive collection of everyone who's ever taken a snap in London (no HCB or Robert Frank, for example), but it's a good opportunity to promote the practice, and to see how it developed over the years. There are quite a few pictures and photographers I was not previously aware of, who are really excellent. Others, such as Paul Martin, I know but it's great to have the chance to see some of their prints. It was quite a thrill to see an original of this well-known Victorian photo: <http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/magnify.php?imageid=im 00237> but I was amazed at how small it is. But such detail in the original. More parochially, it's fun to spot places you know in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, and to see how they've changed. The only bad point is that it is a lot of pictures packed into a relatively small space, so they have put the captions & notes very low beneath the pictures. You often have to bend down and contort yourself to read what they have to say, especially if you need reading glasses, and it infuriated me. I asked the person at the counter if they'd had a lot of complaints about that; she rolled her eyes as if it was the thousandth time she'd heard it. B > > On 7/27/2011 6:43 PM, Bob W wrote: > > Some recent snaps - first 5 are new: > > <http://www.web-options.com/Recent/> > > > > Not sure whether they're any good or whether I just got carried away > with > > enthusiasm after visiting the London Street Photography exhibition > today. > > > > B > > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
