[rollei_list] Re: rollei Central Park "Gates" Photographs

In a message dated 2/25/2005 3:29:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, Robert Marvin 
<marvbej@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>I think that the Gates, as a work of art, are somewhat over-rated, as
>are most of Christo's projects IMO, but the overall effect was
>nevertheless quite beautiful. Even more important was the really
>festive atmosphere throughout the park--people were REALLY happy.
>
>I agonized about photographing this event. I normally hate the thought
>of taking photographs that are just like everyone else's, but decided
>to go ahead anyway. I've seldom seen so many cameras in one place but I
>doubt that more than 10,000 or so people have been perverse enough to
>photograph these saffron orange objects in B&W, although that still
>isn't much of a claim to originality. Nevertheless, I had the chutzpah
>to post an album on the my camera club's website :-)
>
>http://brooklyncameraclub.org/v-web/gallery/Cristo-Gates
>
>All photographs were taken with a Rolleiflex 2.8E (Xenotar) with an
>orange filter on Ilford HP5.
>
>Bob Marvin
>
>
Bob:

I rather liked numbers 9 and 11, and to a slightly lesser degree, #10.

Maybe you should take the chutzpah to a higher level though, and hand color 
these using colors of your own choosing instead of the orange.  

G. King

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