What do you like to shoot the most?

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Wait a minute! You don't have to say what you used to love here a few years ago -- and/or what you might get into someday in the future -- how about just today? I'm getting into cemeteries and graveyards (no, that's not supposed to be a pun). Especially those from previous centuries. Often my 21mm is the only way to fly (I think). But sometimes the 90 or even a 135 might be better for a certain detail. Lots of photographic variety here. And all the reason for me to get back into more black and white.

What are you up to lately? Hope you don't mind me asking. Mike

-- Michael Kastner (kastner@zedat.fu-berlin.de), November 19, 2001

Answers

For me that's simple. My kids, my kids and my kids. Reason is two fold though. With 3 small childeren it is difficult to make time to shoot other topics. I also love to photograph childeren while they are playing. They have realy got used to me shooting so they are very comfortable with. It is very very difficult to do though with a Leica, but when you get a good one it is a joy.

-- Bas Wip (bas@baswip.com), November 19, 2001.

My princess Sarah. She is an animated chick and provides a most wonderful subject for modelling.

sincerely, Alfie

-- Alfie Wang (leica_phile@hotmail.com), November 19, 2001.


I am on an ongoing project of documenting my life and the various stages my life has taken--the variety of locations I lived in and activities I engage in.

-- Haim Toeg (haim_toeg@bmc.com), November 19, 2001.

Check my website and see for yourself: www.bodyscapes.ca Some of the stuff in the Goddess series was shot with a Rollei TLR, but most of it was with my IIIG.

-- Bob Todrick (bobtodrick@yahoo.com), November 19, 2001.

I prefer to photograph people, although I shoot many different subjects. I most often point the Leica at friends and family - my two grandchildren, especially. I use all my lenses from 21-90mm to photograph my subjects, although lately I seem to be using the 75 Summilux and 50 Summicron for most of the exposures. For the majority of my work I am using the following films: Fuji ACROS, Kodak B&W Portra 400, Fuji Sensia, Kodak Ektachrome 100 SW, and Agfa Portrait 160.

-- David (pagedt@chartertn.net), November 19, 2001.


Currently I am working on documenting fundamentalist Christian revivals in the New England and Quebec.

Steve

-- Steve Belden (otterpond@tds.net), November 19, 2001.


I travel around Asia as part of my job (not as a photographer) and do my best to get up really early and shoot a roll or two of either TMX or KR64 depending on location. I am interested in how ordinary people live and do my best to document my travels. Since the primary purpose of these travels is not photography I can't take too much gear so I prefer one body, a 50mm Summilux and 28mm Elmarit. If I really need to travel light then the 35mm Summicron will cover for both.

-- ray tai (razerx@netvigator.com), November 19, 2001.

This year I photographed extensively in Italy on two separate jaunts. The first covered the architecture of Rome and the other involved Tuscan scenics. For the next several months I will be shooting the migratory birds in S Florida.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), November 19, 2001.

Michael:

Right now, I am preparing a 2002 calendar featuring some of the very colourful "Eating Houses" and coffee shops ( Kopitiams) here in Singapore. I use the M6 with a 50mm Summi and a Nikon FM with a Russian MIR 35 f2. Film: Konica Centuria 400 and Provia F, as well as Kodak T400 CN.

I scan them, then make up the calendar in PowerPoint, then print them (about 20)on an old Ink Jet printer and give them to friends as seasonal gifts.

When I lived in a part of the world that has 4 seasons, I did a series of 12 shots of the chair in a cemetary-one each month. It was great fun with all the different seasonal settings: chair & stones completely covered in snow as well as surrounded by brilliant gold & red leaves in Autumn. (Maybe when I get back I'll do it again on one disposable camera, kept in teh 'fridge for a year.)

Thanks for asking.

Auf WiderSehen (sp?)

-- RICHARD ILOMAKI (richardjx@hotmail.com), November 19, 2001.


wildlife and my kids (and their friends) make up 100% of my photography:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com

http://home.earthlink.net/~telyt/

-- Douglas Herr (tyelyt@earthlink.net), November 19, 2001.



Women. What else is there?

Peter Hughes Photography

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), November 19, 2001.


Graveyards are very interesting. I just acquired a well-used 50mm Summicron DR, and shot the initial test roll at a local "resting place".

For similarly restful subjects, products and still lifes are good. For middle-of-the-road subjects, landscapes are tough to beat. And then, there are always models for more lively subjects. (grin) Various samples of all of them are on my site:

http://www.rbarkerphoto.com

A warning, however. There's non-Leica work there too. ;-)

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), November 19, 2001.


I regard pics as a chronicle of my life, times and beauty. That means pretty much everything. It is really true that until one takes a pic of something, one does not truly see. I am amazed that each time i look at the same photo I see something new, with a loupe, the many details/info are staggering. But the photos that are most treasured are mostly family. I do wish the M6ttl has a self timer though, I seem to lack pics of myself !

-- Yip (koklok@krdl.org.sg), November 19, 2001.

Just returned from a trip to Naples and Sicily. Landscapes & people.

Spending much more time with my IIIg & IIIf shooting people.

-- Tony Oresteen (aoresteen@mindspring.com), November 19, 2001.


People. I find this the most rewarding of subjects, especially when everything goes right and I'm able to present someone with a pleasing portrait of him/herself.

I'm also engaged in a self-imposed "projest" to get interesting shots on my way to work each morning; however, many of them turn out to be failures. Jakarta is not the most photogenic of cities but the street scenes are often interesting and that means ... people!

-- Ray Moth (ray_moth@yahoo.com), November 19, 2001.



Munich, the city I currently live in, was the favorite city of Hitler. Documenting how we deal with the concrete abominations the Nazi architects left us, as a form of how we try to come to terms with the past, is a long-term project about to hatch. It also includes a photographic documentation of how we ignore the Nazi past of many 'innocent' structures. (Who knows that Hitler's party held its first meetings in the famous Hofbräuhaus?)

-- Oliver Schrinner (piraya@hispavista.com), November 20, 2001.

Needless to say, I don't really "like" to shoot that. To relax, I either torture a piano or go out photographing birds.

-- Oliver Schrinner (piraya@hispavista.com), November 20, 2001.

"Who knows that Hitler's party held its first meetings in the famous Hofbräuhaus?"

Everybody, I thought. Wouldn't Nuremberg be better suited to that kind of project? But I think all of Bavaria is full of that sort of vibe. I remember my old landlady saying to me "What this country really needs is another Voelkisher Beobachter" - in 1986!

'zifixnochmal!

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), November 20, 2001.


Currently I am working on two photojournalist projects in addition to photographing the Princess:

1) A study of Philadelphia trash and scraps which are left on the side of the streets. I remember myself saying that I learned a lot just by photographing the culture's offal especially in the choices of what people want to discard.

and

2) A 1.5 year project in collaboration with my Sarah about the casual/religious interweaving of personal belief/public thoughts for the Philadelphia 3rd singles ward for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Doing a study of our culture and heritage in candid and decisive moments caught on film for the rest of their own lives.

I hope to pursue a lot more photography. For practice, I shoot a lot of film daily for my Philadelphia diary which is going to be a la Eugene Richards et W. Eugene Smith.

Leicafully, Alfie

-- Albert Wang (leica_phile@hotmail.com), November 20, 2001.


People, I love to photograph people (mainly because I never could figure how to draw). I love street performers too, I seem to photograph a hell of a lot of them.

p.s. I also agree with Peter... women - what Leica's were made for!

-- Philip Woodcock (phil@pushbar.demon.co.uk), November 20, 2001.


Your question makes me think Michael, there´s been time without a solid proyect in my mind, just hang my camera to my waist and use it when I feel I need to, lately I have seen turist (Mazatlan is a place where turist beging to came early in Nov every year), now that USA is in war (here turist are mainly from USA and Canada), they look more like refugies that turist, (Mazatlan is cheaper to live than any other place in USA, even as a turist), now you don´t see them much in restaurants or nigth clubs but in supermarkets and gas stations, it seem interesting to document, for sure I´ll beging doing it. This is not mean to be a political post or any thing to ofend no body, just what came through my mind.

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), November 20, 2001.

I like to put together slide shows that take my viewers to places they might not otherwise see, like area in Colorado accessible only by jeep. I have 2 shows on Colorado. I also like finding beauty in ordinary things otherwise taken for granted, like areas of town that not everyone sees. Industrial areas, or older parts of town.

I use several projectors controlled by a programmable sequencer. Some of the slides are projected out wide to 4x8 feet, while others are the standard format. The wide-screen images give a "you are there" effect. I shot a lot of stuff about the barges and barge hands on the Missouri river, which I will assemble into a show. I have another one about Missouri's springs and streams. 700 images of Mexico are waiting to be edited into a show.

It's like IMAX, Cinerama, and Panavision 70 reduced to living-room size. When I was 14, I had already decided to this this when I was a grown-up.

I shoot and print black-and white images of architecture, nature, and my wife. I plan to have a ball with all this when I retire!

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), November 20, 2001.


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