[LargeFormat] Introductions

[Don Feinberg]

Certainly so.  I actually do want to get into doing some nudes. Thinking
"studies", I "only" need a studio. (Well,
maybe not for "environmental" in the spring/summer)!  :-)  :-)

- Don Feinberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Introductions


> Don:
>
> Perhaps some nudes?
>
> --
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
>
> Don Feinberg wrote:
> >
> > > From: "Don Feinberg" <ducque@mindspring.com>
> > > " I can't find anything to photograph here in the Ameican midwest.  I
much
> > > prefer the US northeast, much of Canada, northern, central, and
eastern
> > > Europe, ..."
> > >
> > > Don,
> > > I really find this a hard comment to accept! The North American
midwest
> > > covers an area far larger than the UK, yet people there seem to manage
to
> > > produce the odd decent image. Can you honestly say you've visited the
> > whole
> > > area, or have you just dismissed it as unworthy of your attention?
> >
> > Unworthy is hardly the word I'd have used.  And, I may be too hasty,
indeed.
> > But I have explored Illinois a bit, and I've found about 17 bazzilion
corn
> > fields, about 8.5 bazillion soybean fields, and lots of milk cows and
pigs.
> > My GPS tells me that the altitude varies about +/- 50 feet from one end
of
> > the state to the other (except Jo Davies county!!).  I do recognize that
> > this has turned me off a lot.
> >
> > I'm much more used to seeing and photographing the fishing villages in
Nova
> > Scotia and Newfoundland, northern Ontario, north central and eastern
> > Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, the Smokies, the
Rockies,
> > the Canadian Rockies, southeastern West Virginia, the Alps in winter,
the
> > High Tatras, the Bosporous, Capadoccia in Turkey, the north-western
coast of
> > Russia and the Baltics, Israel, Kenya, Uganda, and the Seychelles -- for
> > starters.  After that, I'm having a lot of trouble looking for
knock-down
> > images among the cornfields in Illinois.
> >
> > Yes, it is true that I'm exaggerating, and it's true that I have indeed
> > found some places which seem to have some promise.  I'm sure the images
are
> > there -- but I sure am not seeing them!  For example, Chicago has much
truly
> > great architecture -- but I've never been an "architectural
photographer".
> > 18 months into living here, I have yet to make "frame 1" which I'd
consider
> > to let out of the darkroom...
> >
> > That said, in the Midwest, I've found much more visual stimulation in
the UP
> > of Michigan and northern Minnesota.  But those places are 10 -12 hours'
> > drive from here...hardly a day trip.
> >
> > This is a really serious challenge for me.  Hence, my comment.
> >
> > Don Feinberg
>
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