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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Michael LS on June 22, 2010, 11:04:02 am

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Post by: Michael LS on June 22, 2010, 11:04:02 am
It's rented space, but works well to (finally) get some of my work online for view.
I've been on this project, as time has allowed, for a quite awhile. Much of the time
has been spent on scanning and cleaning up the early film stuff.

The digital work has been so much easier...if I don't count the time and effort in
getting the shots to begin with, of course.

Been awhile since I've posted, but I'm here nearly every day reading posts, visiting
members' websites, and seeing what great photos and articles M.R. has posted.

Hope some of you will enjoy my admittedly eclectic work.

Sincerely,
Michael LS
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Post by: popnfresh on June 22, 2010, 01:17:52 pm
Both the new site and your work are quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Michael LS on June 22, 2010, 01:39:01 pm
Quote from: popnfresh
Both the new site and your work are quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I appreciate that, and thanks for visiting.
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 22, 2010, 05:25:37 pm
Quote from: popnfresh
Both the new site and your work are quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Ditto to what Popnfresh said. Very nice work, clean and easy-to-use website.


Eric

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Post by: Michael LS on June 22, 2010, 06:30:11 pm
Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes
Ditto to what Popnfresh said. Very nice work, clean and easy-to-use website.


Eric

Thanks, Eric. I've been to your website a number of times, and in particular,
have always been fascinated by your Sand Abstractions!
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Post by: John R on June 22, 2010, 08:22:18 pm
I like the work very much. Eclectic is a good description for your work. I like the urban work. It shows a good eye for light and composition. One day I shall clean up all my slide files too... one fine year!

JMR
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Post by: tom b on June 22, 2010, 10:34:57 pm
Looked up you new site as my site is called Eclectic Exhibitions.

Just a few small things.

The digital icon link on this page:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786 (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786)

has lost the image link, it's just a grey rectangle.

Is there an image missing on the about page here:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/about.html (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/about.html)

All I can see s a black rectangle.

On a 1024x768 screen Featured Galleries & Collections is just visible on the screen and could be missed. Perhaps you could add a galleries link on the top navigation to this page:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786 (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786)

Obviously you're not a web designer so this is a good first effort. My web site has had 3 structural changes (tables, css and css + spry) as well as several cosmetic overhauls. So think of this as the beginning of your site's design.

Oh, and I like your Tracks images.

Cheers,


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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 09:11:45 am
Quote from: John R
I like the work very much. Eclectic is a good description for your work. I like the urban work. It shows a good eye for light and composition. One day I shall clean up all my slide files too... one fine year!

JMR

Thanks for your comments, John, and glad you liked the work.

Your slides are calling you, btw...they will not stop until you give them the attention they deserve!  
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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 09:49:09 am
Quote from: tom  b
Looked up you new site as my site is called Eclectic Exhibitions.

Just a few small things.

The digital icon link on this page:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786 (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786)

has lost the image link, it's just a grey rectangle.

Is there an image missing on the about page here:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/about.html (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/about.html)

All I can see s a black rectangle.

On a 1024x768 screen Featured Galleries & Collections is just visible on the screen and could be missed. Perhaps you could add a galleries link on the top navigation to this page:

http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786 (http://michaelshafitz.zenfolio.com/f635336786)

Obviously you're not a web designer so this is a good first effort. My web site has had 3 structural changes (tables, css and css + spry) as well as several cosmetic overhauls. So think of this as the beginning of your site's design.

Oh, and I like your Tracks images.

Cheers,

   I'm definitely not a web designer, that's why it's rented space! I've put "learn Dreamweaver" on the same list as "learn French and Spanish",
"visit Baja Mexico and do some surfing", etc, etc...that is, maybe I will, or maybe I'll never find the time.

As for the missing links, the first one I'm looking into- thanks for the heads-up. The second one is supposed to have my personal photo,
(according to zenfolio)...I don't consider it important (even tho I am terribly handsome).

I did a quick look at your great site, and will re-visit later today when time allows, but you've obviously put a ton of work into it. Also, your
the first guy I've run across who is combining photography with painting, which I like. And I really liked the images I saw. Look forward to
re-visiting them. I can see why you liked my "Tracks" images...your homepage image is in the same spirit, eh?
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Post by: Rob C on June 23, 2010, 10:15:13 am
I find you site and work very pleasing and I particularly like the fact that you have not followed the herd and done the 'separate pigeonhole' thing with the pictures.

I believe that you can get a better idea of how a photographer thinks if you see his work in no particular sequence; I appreciate that anyone selling commerically to art buyers etc. might feel he is running into impatience territory by not baby spoon-feeding the viewers, but the hell with that; a two- second mind isn't going to stick with anyone for long at the best of times.

I don't really think I'd be expecting to change much of anything at all, were I you. Why?

Rob C

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Post by: fredjeang on June 23, 2010, 10:27:25 am
Irony! When I saw the vintage film colors, I liked the wide angle shots, those are exactly the tones I'm currently working in Capture One to obtain...I can't help thinking that is an absurd situation in some way.
Also, we have too much DR for B&W now and I'm back on burning my highlights again.
I find digital imagery at the end like this very good looking woman, everything is perfect and siliconed but boring in the end. I prefer too Ava Garner.
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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 02:00:20 pm
Quote from: Rob C
I find you site and work very pleasing and I particularly like the fact that you have not followed the herd and done the 'separate pigeonhole' thing with the pictures.

I believe that you can get a better idea of how a photographer thinks if you see his work in no particular sequence; I appreciate that anyone selling commerically to art buyers etc. might feel he is running into impatience territory by not baby spoon-feeding the viewers, but the hell with that; a two- second mind isn't going to stick with anyone for long at the best of times.

I don't really think I'd be expecting to change much of anything at all, were I you. Why?

Rob C

Hi Rob, thanks for your visit, and I find your comments to provide some great insight. I probably won't change anything, mostly because I don't know how. Anyway, if it isn't fun, why do it? I'd like to more closely explore some subjects, in the future, if I can ever work out the daunting logistics -and keep it fun   Until then, I'll keep going to local locations at certain times, and seeing if the Universe will throw me a bone, and if I'm sharp enough (that day) to catch it!

I suppose if I knew how to make mega-bucks by catering to a certain audience via certain images, AND please myself at the same time, I'd do it. But like I said, I don't know how. I wear two other hats to make a living. One is graphics-related, but not photography.

I visited your site not long ago, when you first announced it here at LuLa. I went again today. Your model shots are gorgeous. Beautiful light, and lush color, and great design in those exotic places...fantastic! Also enjoyed the wall abstracts.
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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 02:27:27 pm
Quote from: fredjeang
Irony! When I saw the vintage film colors, I liked the wide angle shots, those are exactly the tones I'm currently working in Capture One to obtain...I can't help thinking that is an absurd situation in some way.
Also, we have too much DR for B&W now and I'm back on burning my highlights again.
I find digital imagery at the end like this very good looking woman, everything is perfect and siliconed but boring in the end. I prefer too Ava Garner.

Yes, I feel the same way about film. I shot a lot of early film stuff on some type of color neg that I can't remember the name of now.
All I recall is, I bought it in 25' (or was it 50' ?) rolls, bulk-loaded it, and kept it in the fridge. It was called "Professional something-or-other.
I used slides for awhile, until I got sick of the lack of latitude...or sick of my crappy exposures   , and also liked the "look" of the neg film.
It would be pretty hard to mimic that stuff in digital, no matter how much time and software I had.

Please don't tell me about Ava Gardner and silicone (no pun intended). I know what you mean, but we gotta stay with the modern world.
Unless, of course, we decided not too...
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Post by: Rob C on June 23, 2010, 03:58:22 pm
Quote from: Michael LS
Hi Rob, thanks for your visit, and I find your comments to provide some great insight. I probably won't change anything, mostly because I don't know how. Anyway, if it isn't fun, why do it? I'd like to more closely explore some subjects, in the future, if I can ever work out the daunting logistics -and keep it fun   Until then, I'll keep going to local locations at certain times, and seeing if the Universe will throw me a bone, and if I'm sharp enough (that day) to catch it!

I suppose if I knew how to make mega-bucks by catering to a certain audience via certain images, AND please myself at the same time, I'd do it. But like I said, I don't know how. I wear two other hats to make a living. One is graphics-related, but not photography.

I visited your site not long ago, when you first announced it here at LuLa. I went again today. Your model shots are gorgeous. Beautiful light, and lush color, and great design in those exotic places...fantastic! Also enjoyed the wall abstracts.



Hi Michael

Thanks for the compliment re. the girls etc. and the truth is, as I mention in the site, all those shots were Kodachrome 64 or, sometimes but rarely, Ektachrome 64. There were never any art directors, makeup or hair people; my wife used to use a small spray to add sweat/sea effects to their skin, sometimes she wielded a reflector, and all those girls knew how to put on their own gloop.

I hardly ever used colour neg. after I went out on my own - never needed colour prints except once, a nightmare job where it took me a year to get the clients to pay. They used to make mini-kilts, worked out of their factory as a two-brother management trick, and each time I'd go to find where my money was, I'd get a small payment towards the total from alternating brothers. Sadly, the colour lab allowed a month's credit and I ended up footing the huge bill until that year was out. Not always the best class of people you run into in fashion...

I've never shot a model with digital - okay, family, but it doesn't count because the whole process is totally different with a pro shoot. I often wonder how it would work out with digi, doing what I used to do. Probably much the same, I suppose, but looking at the work of the big guys of today it looks something totally else, but that might just be because of all those retouchers adding their input; would you pay them if they didn't make a difference?

You don't seem to be short on motivation; that's my single biggest problem these days, that and boredom with the local scene. And time: I seem to do nothing, but it takes all morning to do it. Then I go eat and after that it's either too hot (now, at last!) or I get sidetracked by the computer.

I need a holiday from  myself.

Rob C
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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 08:41:13 pm
Quote from: Rob C
Hi Michael

Thanks for the compliment re. the girls etc. and the truth is, as I mention in the site, all those shots were Kodachrome 64 or, sometimes but rarely, Ektachrome 64. There were never any art directors, makeup or hair people; my wife used to use a small spray to add sweat/sea effects to their skin, sometimes she wielded a reflector, and all those girls knew how to put on their own gloop.

I hardly ever used colour neg. after I went out on my own - never needed colour prints except once, a nightmare job where it took me a year to get the clients to pay. They used to make mini-kilts, worked out of their factory as a two-brother management trick, and each time I'd go to find where my money was, I'd get a small payment towards the total from alternating brothers. Sadly, the colour lab allowed a month's credit and I ended up footing the huge bill until that year was out. Not always the best class of people you run into in fashion...

I've never shot a model with digital - okay, family, but it doesn't count because the whole process is totally different with a pro shoot. I often wonder how it would work out with digi, doing what I used to do. Probably much the same, I suppose, but looking at the work of the big guys of today it looks something totally else, but that might just be because of all those retouchers adding their input; would you pay them if they didn't make a difference?

You don't seem to be short on motivation; that's my single biggest problem these days, that and boredom with the local scene. And time: I seem to do nothing, but it takes all morning to do it. Then I go eat and after that it's either too hot (now, at last!) or I get sidetracked by the computer.

I need a holiday from  myself.

Rob C

So, it would seem the Kilt-Brothers are responsible for your color negative negativity (would that be a double-negative?). But you must realize, Rob, color neg is innocent...innocent I say!! I do like your war stories, though.

Of course, your work then was a natural for KR64. I got into the color neg because of a surrealistic bent, and the film lent itself to that. It also had asa 200, which was like iso 1000 now! And the latitude covered not paying enough attention to a manual exposure slr. I could just run through L.A. and shoot (I think they use Glocks now) and not be hampered by technical issues. I was like a hunting dog let off his leash! Good thing I didn't have clients to please. They'd 'ave run me out of town on a rail!

Ok Rob, take a holiday from yourself. When you get back all refreshed, do some photography. Forget all the cool media stuff like pc's, HDTV, etc., for awhile. Understand that no matter where you live, there are pictures. Heck, your a photographer- you already know that. And don't eat at home in the morning- get up early and drink too much coffee, then go somewhere with your camera and watch the sun come up, or the urban pulse begin to come alive. If your in the woods or fields, you'll be fine, but if your in the city, watching the urban pulse come alive, try to be near an alley in case all that coffee becomes a problem.  

Anyway, lash yourself to a tree or lightpole, don't move for 3 hours, and watch what the Universe offers you. If you are lucky, and are not arrested or mugged, you will likely have at least one keeper shot- possibly two or three. And the beauty part of all this is, you only have to do it 2 days a week. Any 2 days you want. Then, you still have 5 other days for screwing around!!

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Post by: tom b on June 23, 2010, 08:55:08 pm
Quote from: Michael LS
As for the missing links, the first one I'm looking into- thanks for the heads-up. The second one is supposed to have my personal photo,
(according to zenfolio)...I don't consider it important (even tho I am terribly handsome).

If that is the case, why not put one of your images in there that is representative of your photography. Anything would be better than a blank space.

Cheers,
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Post by: Michael LS on June 23, 2010, 10:15:05 pm
Quote from: tom  b
If that is the case, why not put one of your images in there that is representative of your photography. Anything would be better than a blank space.

Cheers,

That's an excellent idea, Tom. I will search for the right image for that spot.
You obviously have business skills as well as artistic ones!
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Post by: tom b on June 23, 2010, 11:02:24 pm
Quote from: Michael LS
I did a quick look at your great site, and will re-visit later today when time allows, but you've obviously put a ton of work into it. Also, your
the first guy I've run across who is combining photography with painting, which I like. And I really liked the images I saw. Look forward to
re-visiting them. I can see why you liked my "Tracks" images...your homepage image is in the same spirit, eh?

The tracks images remind me more of my Snail trails series which is a work in progress. Trying to find artistic snails is difficult. You can see the series here:

http://www.tombrown.id.au/monochrome/sea_s...lbum/index.html (http://www.tombrown.id.au/monochrome/sea_snails/album/index.html)

And no I don't have a business bone in my body.

Cheers
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Post by: Rob C on June 24, 2010, 04:15:07 am
Quote from: Michael LS
So, it would seem the Kilt-Brothers are responsible for your color negative negativity (would that be a double-negative?). But you must realize, Rob, color neg is innocent...innocent I say!! I do like your war stories, though.

Of course, your work then was a natural for KR64. I got into the color neg because of a surrealistic bent, and the film lent itself to that. It also had asa 200, which was like iso 1000 now! And the latitude covered not paying enough attention to a manual exposure slr. I could just run through L.A. and shoot (I think they use Glocks now) and not be hampered by technical issues. I was like a hunting dog let off his leash! Good thing I didn't have clients to please. They'd 'ave run me out of town on a rail!

Ok Rob, take a holiday from yourself. When you get back all refreshed, do some photography. Forget all the cool media stuff like pc's, HDTV, etc., for awhile. Understand that no matter where you live, there are pictures. Heck, your a photographer- you already know that. And don't eat at home in the morning- get up early and drink too much coffee, then go somewhere with your camera and watch the sun come up, or the urban pulse begin to come alive. If your in the woods or fields, you'll be fine, but if your in the city, watching the urban pulse come alive, try to be near an alley in case all that coffee becomes a problem.  

Anyway, lash yourself to a tree or lightpole, don't move for 3 hours, and watch what the Universe offers you. If you are lucky, and are not arrested or mugged, you will likely have at least one keeper shot- possibly two or three. And the beauty part of all this is, you only have to do it 2 days a week. Any 2 days you want. Then, you still have 5 other days for screwing around!!


Hi Michael

Like Fred, you are not only a photographer but a philosopher too!

I very much enjoyed your post and I have to confess to be sitting here with a stupid grin on my face; whether it does enough to put camera into hand I'm not sure, but I'm certainly going to make myself a coffee right now...

Which underlines the irony of life yet again: that's how the mornings get swallowed up doing all those important things that swallow them up.

Thanks for the moment of mirth!

Rob C
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Post by: stamper on June 24, 2010, 04:38:48 am




You don't seem to be short on motivation; that's my single biggest problem these days, that and boredom with the local scene. And time: I seem to do nothing, but it takes all morning to do it. Then I go eat and after that it's either too hot (now, at last!) or I get sidetracked by the computer.

I need a holiday from  myself.

Rob C
[/quote]

I couldn't have written it better myself. I have wandered far - I don't drive - in the nearly ten years that I have been in photography and seeing something different is difficult. Maybe a new pair of eyes?  
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Post by: fredjeang on June 24, 2010, 06:13:13 am
Quote from: stamper
You don't seem to be short on motivation; that's my single biggest problem these days, that and boredom with the local scene. And time: I seem to do nothing, but it takes all morning to do it. Then I go eat and after that it's either too hot (now, at last!) or I get sidetracked by the computer.

I need a holiday from  myself.

Rob C


I couldn't have written it better myself. I have wandered far - I don't drive - in the nearly ten years that I have been in photography and seeing something different is difficult. Maybe a new pair of eyes?
Stamper, Rob, myself (I'm also answering to myself here) etc...

I think that we do not need a new pair of eyes, but we do need a new movie that these eyes are watching.
In other words, we need a physical move. Like what Michael is actually doing.

What do you feel when you hear about Michael's move? You feel that is going to boost his life in a good way, don't you? Well,
that is my feeling. He is moving the stagnated soup, he is offering himself another panorama. No doubt that the pics will
increased and the inner sensation will be feeded by all these new stimulations.

There is nothing more killing that staying in the same place and watching every single day the same movie.
First, you think that it's you and make the resolution to extract something interesting when there is nothing stimulating any more.
And that is when we start these abstract experiments, these macro shots of available objects.
A srewdriver suddenly becomes a pretext of beauty. A dead car engine under the morning sun. Wired textures.

Seeing the beauty at the street corner is indeed a great and frustrating exercice.

Great because it just forces to enhance the perception, being able to find beauty in every single moment, included the most difficult ones.
And it is true that there is, that sometimes we do not see enough where the photography is, and it might be just there.

Frustrating because every attempt, succeded or not, is filling the glass. There is a time when whatever water you put into the glass it just can
be filled any more. Why? because the glass has a specific volume. It can handle a certain quantity. So whatever the efforts are, the capacity is
what is. There is no other solution than taking another empty glass or changing it. That is the sense of the move.

Many great artists have always made physical moves when things where stagnating. The danger is just to think that one's vision is not
good enough when the real thing that should be done is just a physical move.

Let allow myself to introduce a crazy idea. What you could do, Rob and Stamper, is make an exange. Rob goes to Glasgow and Stamper goes to the Island for awhile. That sounds crazy isn't it? but it actually would operate a great move and inspiration on both.
Yes, your Scotish town has changed, but you will walk in those streets with the camera, something powerfull will happen. Maybe your very best pictures are there, waiting for you.

We should not treat themselves bad, thinking that we can not see the magic any more. What we need IMO is just a move.
Artists do that constantly, animals do that constantly. And even Mother nature does not like stagnation. Everything is constantly moving.
If we stay still for too long, IMO, we are just going against the natural law. And the price to pay at this toll is pretty high.

Let's move!

Cheers.
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Post by: Rob C on June 24, 2010, 10:50:51 am
Does anyone else feel that this site has become far more gripping of late?

The idea of moving is great, but it also carries the same, tiny practical flaw as that M9: cost. I have sometimes thought of leaving the rock and returning to the city whence I came, but I know that it's been far too long: thirty years, more or less, with only a few six-week visits in between those years. When I was there last - almost six years ago - I realised I no longer knew the place. Worse, I also realised that memory was stronger than new experience: I hated the changes and thought that all the new buildings, the new roadways, all of it were mistakes. I remember being able to cycle to school and then, when I was older, to work from south Glasgow to Paisley without any trouble at all - in the fogs I just pushed the bike, and in the ice I just fell off. Today, I'd be a traffic statistic.

Fred, I have to ask you the same question, then: why did you leave France - was it to escape the cons and the mecs, the flic? Did you just fall in love with Victoria Abril or Penélope Cruz? Who can tell, and even you will find it hard to know. I thought I had it all sussed too, that it was all to do with photo locations and work - I no longer really believe that about my motivation, I think I was actually looking to be Robinson Crusoe. And damn, did I succeed! Thank God my wife was as certain about it all as I was in those early years; the one time she had doubts was when the first grand-child came along, but that natural wish to be with the new young life passed into a more sensible idea of the place of an older person within family life - don't smother!

As I may have mentioned, when we first drove from here to Scotland I fell in love with the area around the Dordogne and property there was, then, far cheaper than in Mallorca. I was very tempted and felt we needed a change. But, Ann said one thing when I pointed at a wonderful little house up on a mound in a field: Rob, have you failed to notice the amount of firewood they have stored alongside that house? Hmmm....

Cities now make me fairly uncomfortable, I feel threat where it may exist only in my mind, or it may be real. I don't think I could tell the difference anymore until it was too late. Even laid-back Palma de Mallorca can scare the wits out of people in some places - the police won't go into some gypsy areas of the city without lots of back-up and automatic weaponry. Raids make the papers with full photo coverage. Ah the drugs, theft and prostitution trades! Why be a photographer if all one seeks is money? One can be a whore in a whole lot of other more highly rewarding industries!

Rob C
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Post by: fredjeang on June 24, 2010, 11:42:40 am
Rob, are you serious about Mallorca?
Did not know that.

Why did I land on Madrid from Paris?
Total casuality. At that time I was not looking for a change in the terms I expressed there. No girl involved either.
I was about to establish my residence in England. I always loved England more than France (and loved the british girls! and also had a scotish girlfriend...wild!!!)
Then an English friend who was building his home in andalusia offers me to spend a summer in his Madrid's flat.
I just falled in love with the climate, life style quality and the special atmosphere of Madrid and decided to change my English move for Spain.
All has just been improvised in a question of days, based on an organic sensation if I might say.
I don't regret the move at all, but feel that it is time for me to leave Spain in a close future.
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Post by: Rocco Penny on June 24, 2010, 03:05:03 pm
Quote from: Rob C
Does anyone else feel that this site has become far more gripping of late?

... I feel threat where it may exist only in my mind, or it may be real...
...- the police won't go into some gypsy areas of the city without lots of back-up and automatic weaponry...
... Ah the drugs, theft and prostitution trades!  Why be a photographer if all one seeks is money? One can be a whore in a whole lot of other more highly rewarding industries!

Rob C

Rob,
You might be the old man I want to be.
If I'm reading you right, you're saying you'd rather take photographs of thugs, criminals, miscreants, and more or less dubious characters than to take a good job that pays say 100K a year?
Or am I reading too much into what you're saying?
OK just paying attention
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Post by: Rob C on June 25, 2010, 03:29:58 am
Quote from: Rocco Penny
Rob,
You might be the old man I want to be.
If I'm reading you right, you're saying you'd rather take photographs of thugs, criminals, miscreants, and more or less dubious characters than to take a good job that pays say 100K a year?
Or am I reading too much into what you're saying?
OK just paying attention



Rocco

That's a very flattering communication! No-one has previously even hinted at the possibility of wanting to be me; I am humbled.

But hell, I don't like being humble! Some time after my mother died I was looking at her Eng/Span/and the other way around dictionary and there, on the inside of the dust cover, she had written: defiant, flamboyant, triumphant. I have no idea if she had been trying to send me a posthumous message having perhaps had an inkling of her own end, but whatever else, it sure summed up her approach to living. I have pondered that little three-word message ever since.

I never was much into celebrity photography, so as far as taking pics of thugs, criminals etc. perhaps you are reading too much into my words? That all depends on how much I should read into your 'confusion' of course, but were I getting 100K at the monet I would probably already have that M9. Funny, before I could afford a 500C I used to salivate about it just as I now do over that little German piece. (Not Claudia, she's a large German piece and I have already been in love with BB so why accept a copy?) And once I had the 500C - well, I just forgot about it and had to get a back-up.

Ah the lure of what one believes unobtainable.

No, maybe you want to reconsider being anything like me - personally, I'd rather just again be in that beautiful time zone between 35 and 50!

Ciao

Rob C
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Post by: Rocco Penny on June 25, 2010, 11:43:11 am
Michael LS, I love the kerchiefs. Very pretty.

Rob C

Yep my Ma is funny too.
Marched in the civil rights and anti war rallies in the 60's as she rode horses and avoided redneck's passes.
Ran a ranch, had only about 25 head, but would tell a cowboy how to do it.
My Pa did lotsa work too, with the horses and regular job he was as busy a man as I ever knew.
He got good at roping the ass end of cows like a pro.
He always would ride a horse he rescued from the auction.
Would wait for a dangerous type of rodeo bronc, or just any horse he had a feeling for.
He was right sometimes and wrong sometimes.
He had a big gelding named Coffee that once took off with me on the back of it and wouldn't stop until I fell off at the fence.
Mean damn horse.
Anyway, the reason I said anything is because you seem oddly suited to telling the world to bite your rump,
and I couldn't agree more
As to my confusion,
yeah have you seen Royal Tennenbaums?
The kid that Bill Murray's character is testing?
Yep
one dent, two dents, three dents  
Oh well,
photography has me busy so the danger from horses is considerably less now...
take it easy,
and sorry for the load of c  r  a  p  in your thread Michael
Title: LuLa forum, hope you'll check out my new site
Post by: Rob C on June 25, 2010, 02:58:53 pm
Hi Rocco

No, I haven't caught the Tennenbaums - sound as if I know of them but in reality it's just an echo of something that passed in the night. Many good things are like that - both echoes and impossible to pin down; probably like good horses, but I don't know much about them either, except that they are very fierce and bite and/or crush if they catch you in close quarters. I'm told they are also dumb, but I think it's just a clever ploy that gets them the sympathy when they kick some poor unfortunate's head right off.

I hate bullfighting, and I always thought that the picador's horses were terribly brave, facing down the bulls like that, and all; then, one night, I was sitting in the wrong seat facing the tv in the local bar having something to eat and the fights were on. Hell's bleedin' bells - the poor old nags are blindfolded! Who would have guessed. I suppose I should have.

But I have worn Levis all my life.

Rob C
Title: LuLa forum, hope you'll check out my new site
Post by: Rob C on June 25, 2010, 03:00:19 pm
Oops! Another double!

Rob C