I agree -- 1 & 4 -- particularly 4. Paul On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Bob W wrote:
>> >> 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. -- 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.
