Is anything going to get more than a comment a week here? Hard to tell.

Cafe Trieste, Copyright 2001 Jeff Spirer

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-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), June 26, 2001

Answers

Hey Jeff, nice photo...long tone, and cool tat!!!

Any ideas on how to get things moving around here again? I hope it's not because I don't cause crap as frequently nowadays myself:)

shawn

-- shawn (shawngibson_prophoto@yahoo.com), June 26, 2001.

Seems like just a handful of us left. Summer probably is the reason. This is a great people shot. Interesting character with interesting details.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 26, 2001.

I dunno Tony, seems like it got slow before the summer.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), June 26, 2001.

Then I hope it's only because photos are out being taken and soon we'll have a flood of great people pics to pick and gnaw on.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 26, 2001.

Ya, it seems to have been trickling for a while...But I've noticed lately a LOT of forums, photo and painting and other, have been getting slow. I wonder if it's something...inevitable.

Could be Canada'a fault, too...:)

-- shawn (seeinsideforever@yahoo.com), June 26, 2001.

Me, I have a great excuse: I've been settling into my new house, mowing grass, fixing toilets, regrouting shower stalls, and building a work bench for the garage! :-) (but I've been taking pictures of it all!)

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 26, 2001.

But I've noticed lately a LOT of forums, photo and painting and other, have been getting slow. I wonder if it's something...inevitable.

There's been so much talk about photography on the Internet that there isn't that much need for more, and I think that's why some forums are getting slow. After the same questions have been asked 300 times, people lose their enthusiasm. But that's why I've always liked this forum, it's image-driven.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), June 26, 2001.

I find his eyes are at odds with his facial expression. I don't know why this is. I;ll come back later and have another look.

I look at the forum most days, comment infreqently (I'm a sponge at this stage) and post whenever I have something 'good enough' to post (rarely.. since people isn't my main interest, but am taking more 'people' shots when I'm out and about)

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), June 26, 2001.

I like the picture Jeff, don't know why. Could be the tootat, it's different than most, or his face which is interesting enough to draw me back several times, the great tonal range of the print, but I expect that from you, I like the setting, looks like a bar during the day, again I come back to his face. It is shaped like the tall guy in the Munster's, not that this person looks like him. His tilted posture adds interest as does his sight line, what is he looking at?

I hope the sight gets busy again; I enjoy and have been influenced by the postings here. I sit in front of my screen looking into a world that I can't quite penetrate, yet. Keep posting I noticed your prolonged absence as well as the dwindling posts of others.

-- Larry Szoke (lszoke@sympatico.ca), June 26, 2001.

this is a well composed portrait, which almost has the subject's charisma leap out of the screen.

excellent.

-- edward kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), June 27, 2001.

Someone, Somewhere

I'm lurking, working, and being lazy enough to hope that someone else will entertain me.

I've been taking reels and reels of film, but it's all babies and relatives holding them, which is of limited interest to the board. As a substitute, here's one of a huge untidy shoebox heap of negatives my father in law left behind.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), June 27, 2001.

Excellent portrait, and an interesting tattoo. Nice contrast between the tropical motif and a decidedly un-tropical face.

And Struan, thank you for not subjecting us to too many baby pics. Feel free to post more stuff from the shoebox. . .

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), June 29, 2001.

I thought that one was a bit Dixonian too :-)

There's one baby pic which looks amazingly like something Jeff would take. What I want to know is what he was doing in my bedroom with my camera, and why was he wearing my wife's nightie?

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 02, 2001.

And I'm wondering, Struan, how you could say "Hi Honey" to someone sneaking by with a shaved head.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), July 02, 2001.

Sleep deprivation.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 02, 2001.

I also liked the shoebox pic...

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), July 02, 2001.

My mother-in-law on honeymoon.

Here's another one then.

These were both taken by my father-in-law when on honeymoon. As you can see, he wasn't the sort to pamper his bride :-). Gabe's look in the first pic is actually her photo-face: she still wears it today whenever I get the camera out.

I'll post some more once I've got them scanned, and had time to let the family have a first look/veto. Until then, there's always t his.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 03, 2001.

Struan these shoebox pictures are great. Just like the "never before published" photos from the back pages of the National Geographic. It's really interesting to see how things looked like in other parts of the world 70+ years ago. I hope your family members allow you to post the rest of the pics on the web. More more.... Btw... the baby pics are nice too.

-- Fred Sun (redsky3@yahoo.com), July 06, 2001.

Hi Jeff......so this is where you've gotten to....I roam around greenspun's sites, but don't say much

great pic....you've caught him at a moment where he is "ok about himself"...ya know, like......yep, this moment is my moment.

-- T.S.SULLIVAN (thomas.sullivan@baesystems.com), July 08, 2001.