[LargeFormat] Introductions

Tue Jan 21 10:27:15 2003

Don:

No studio?

Then... Go for Goth!
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/portfolio/6/index.html

-- 
Jim - http://www.hemenway.com

Don Feinberg wrote:
> 
> Certainly so.  I actually do want to get into doing some nudes. Thinking
> "studies", I "only" need a studio. (Well,
> maybe not for "environmental" in the spring/summer)!  :-)  :-)
> 
> - Don Feinberg
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Introductions
> 
> > Don:
> >
> > Perhaps some nudes?
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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
> >
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