[LargeFormat] Introductions

[Jim Hemenway]

Don:

Perhaps some nudes?

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Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



Don Feinberg wrote:
> 
> > From: "Don Feinberg" <ducque@mindspring.com>
> > " I can't find anything to photograph here in the Ameican midwest.  I much
> > prefer the US northeast, much of Canada, northern, central, and eastern
> > Europe, ..."
> >
> > Don,
> > I really find this a hard comment to accept! The North American midwest
> > covers an area far larger than the UK, yet people there seem to manage to
> > produce the odd decent image. Can you honestly say you've visited the
> whole
> > area, or have you just dismissed it as unworthy of your attention?
> 
> Unworthy is hardly the word I'd have used.  And, I may be too hasty, indeed.
> But I have explored Illinois a bit, and I've found about 17 bazzilion corn
> fields, about 8.5 bazillion soybean fields, and lots of milk cows and pigs.
> My GPS tells me that the altitude varies about +/- 50 feet from one end of
> the state to the other (except Jo Davies county!!).  I do recognize that
> this has turned me off a lot.
> 
> I'm much more used to seeing and photographing the fishing villages in Nova
> Scotia and Newfoundland, northern Ontario, north central and eastern
> Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, the Smokies, the Rockies,
> the Canadian Rockies, southeastern West Virginia, the Alps in winter, the
> High Tatras, the Bosporous, Capadoccia in Turkey, the north-western coast of
> Russia and the Baltics, Israel, Kenya, Uganda, and the Seychelles -- for
> starters.  After that, I'm having a lot of trouble looking for knock-down
> images among the cornfields in Illinois.
> 
> Yes, it is true that I'm exaggerating, and it's true that I have indeed
> found some places which seem to have some promise.  I'm sure the images are
> there -- but I sure am not seeing them!  For example, Chicago has much truly
> great architecture -- but I've never been an "architectural photographer".
> 18 months into living here, I have yet to make "frame 1" which I'd consider
> to let out of the darkroom...
> 
> That said, in the Midwest, I've found much more visual stimulation in the UP
> of Michigan and northern Minnesota.  But those places are 10 -12 hours'
> drive from here...hardly a day trip.
> 
> This is a really serious challenge for me.  Hence, my comment.
> 
> Don Feinberg