[lit-ideas] Re: Photos, this morning's and other's
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:41:29 -0700
Mike,
Susan regularly asks me to "overhaul" her desktop or laptop. I've often
wondered how people get by who don't have someone in their family who knows
how to overhaul the "damn things".
I assume your interest in photography occurred back in the film days . . .
an image of Norma Desmond . . . .
There is a genre name for the sort of photography you described in an
earlier note: Street Photography. I don't know if they used that term back
in the film days, but they use it now. Walk up and down shabby streets
snapping photos of depressed-looking people and you are a Street
Photographer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography
I used a "Rangefinder" like the ones referred to in the above article. Mine
was an Olympus 35RC http://www.cameraquest.com/olyrc.htm But I never walked
the streets with it. You may recall the recent discovery of the photos of
Vivien Maier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier). She did that.
From what I see in the forums, people interested in Street Photography like
to do a lot of it in Black and White aiming for a gritty, film noir look . .
. Ida Tarbell, Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens . . . . Muck
exists. It is always with us, but it takes a certain sort of person to want
to rake it. My recent confrontation with the Scientology security guards is
near enough for me - not the confrontation itself but the muckraking
articles I read about them afterwards.
Lawrence
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On Behalf Of Mike Geary
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:35 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Photos, this morning's and other's
Hi, Lawrence, I haven't commented on any of your photos for awhile now
because for some reason I can no longer access them. I need to take the
damn thing in and have an overhaul, but until then, I didn't want you to
think that I was ignoring your posts.
Mike Geary
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Today we hiked by a golf course not owned by Scientology, as far as I know.
Photos on the August 2011 gallery, page 7, starting with photo 134 are from
this morning's hike.
Yesterday I finished uploading photos to Gallery July 2011 & started on
Gallery June 2011.
http://lawrencehelm.smugmug.com/
As to my run-in on 8-18-11 with Sal the Scientology Security Guard, and his
telling me that Muriel Dufresne from Gold Base Public Relations would be
calling me on 8-18 or 8-19 -- she hasn't called yet. The friend who
predicted that she wouldn't call, and that this was merely a mild form of
security-guard-intimidation, may turn out to be right. I was mildly
intimidated. I'm not able to walk along looking for interesting scenes to
photograph while Sal is in my viewfinder, following along on the Scientology
side of a chain-link fence, pummeling me with questions.
Today we hiked the river again, but at the furthest extreme (as far as the
areas we like to hike go) from the Scientology compound. We did something
we hadn't done before and climbed up on the levee separating the golf course
at Main Street and Soboba Road from the river. The reason we hadn't gone up
there before is that there is nothing to prevent Ginger and Sage from
running down onto the course; which Ginger did on one occasion while my eye
was hidden behind my E-1s viewfinder. But there weren't any golfers nearby
when she did it, and she came right back up when I asked her to; so no harm
was done.
Lawrence
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