un abrazo.
Carlos Rubin

thank you gentlemen for your heart felt comments … there are more to read, and a comment from me under “family/friends”…

david

Speaking of Hemmingway (by someone earlier??) I was roped into touring the wine country of Northern Michigan today and observing mother-daughter-granddaughter. I represent son-brother-uncle in this relationship. Anyway, I’m in a sharing mood. Here’s what I shot today if anyone’s interested:

http://www.humanfiles.com/traverse.htm

David M

In communion with everyone.

I never met you, but your life and work touched me many times and I truly mourn your passing… and offer my thoughts for your many grieving friends… Je suis désolée…

Sidney

Martin

it is late….and i have found out in the last hour of the loss of my friend Alexandra Boulat..i cannot write now….too much to say and yet the keyboard does not work…

tomorrow morning (rather later this morning) i will post a story on Alexandra under “family/friends”…i knew this was coming soon….i have not been looking forward to writing my next story….

peace, david

That is terrible news! Alexandra Boulat was a great photographer and, from those who knew her, I know she was a great person!

A loss for everyone.

Giancarlo

Photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, 45, of agency VII has died 10/5/07.

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/10/boulat.html

David…

I’m asked but I knew the answer. I really do.
We have a quote “do what you love and you will not working no more” or something like that.
I’m a person who have contradiction nature, because in one side I’m always must be the best, not for publicity but for my self, do something special (save the mind) , it is something what subscribe me, but simultaneously I’m person who think about life witch go on, or just past, and I not care about result or fame or all this stuff. Struggle it is word I don’t knew before but this is perfect word.
Contradiction! Two natures. Ambitions and Consciousness. I spend too much time for result. Image before eyes!
But I think result is important, because we are who we are. We are imperfect…
And family… top of the mountain… and wall… who care about wall?

I think you are not only free man, but happy man too….

I’m going to drink a sea of gin tonight so… I salute you!

Where you going now? If I may ask?

Peace

Martin

nice Plato quote….didn’t Plato say everything about everything???

by the way, we are having a student show fiesta friday october 12…please join us at my loft…

cheers, david

hemmingway is my man….and “Old Man and the Sea” i read over and over again as a teenager..the great thing about fishermen, and a great quality among photographers, is to be always hopeful…to get up every morning , like the old man, and be hopeful…enthusiastic…giving it your all…passionate…sticking with it until the end….if you do all those things, you will be a happy woman or man…fish or no fish…if there is no fish, you get right up the next morning hopeful…..

GARETH…

my aol acct. seems to be working fine, but i did have one other person they their e-mail was bouncing back..but, hundreds seem to be coming through!!! do you have a web site or some other way that i could link to your work??? or just upload it to “Digital Railroad” site as an entry (see “tech stuff”)…

HERVE…

my only motive is to help…only constructive critique coming from me….that does not mean that what i might say might not sting for a minute…but the intent is to push you forward, not backward….

NOUSHIN….

just relax…play….enjoy taking pictures….do not try “too hard”…”trying” does not work….getting “in the zone” works….total immersion works…but work does not work…

ANGELA…

i will check out your site in the next few days…i just got back home and have a few priorities…but i will look soonest….i loved loved working on Banjo Paterson and working in the outback….i am anxious to see the work you mentioned…

MARTIN…

my big armchair was a gift from my ex-wife when we were married….we are good friends now …even though we are “ex’ we share so much joy being with our two sons…so that chair has a lot of sentiment attached to it, even though the style is totally NOT new york loft!!!

i never never let myself think that i am any different from any other photographer…i have seen some of my friends allow “fame” to make them no longer seriously working…i prefer the struggle….for me a struggling journey is productive…not being at the top of the mountain gives me a passion to get there…

so even though i will never be at the top of the mountain (a self created mountain), i totally am in love with the journey…because each campsite on this journey has had a wonderful view…experiences untouchable… the best family life…. warm friendships…and a picture every now and then…i feel like a very rich man…not with money (i always struggle with that), but in the best asset of all…a true freedom…and an exhilaration with life around me…

simply put…i have never “had to go to work”

CARLOS MANUEL….

my overall experience with editors has been particularly positive….my “secret” is in always seeing things from their point of view..

after all, i am showing them my point of view!!!

they do not have to be “oversold” or “hammered” by me being arrogant or demanding… i work very hard to get involved in the whole process, by understanding the writer/text, the picture editor and the art director…this is the collaborative team that gets the work to the managing editor…

editors are looking for great work…..they need great work…they are not there to “squash”, they are there to create a fine magazine…

there have been times when i pushed “the envelope” a bit too far for an editors taste…but i have never had serious conflict….we work it out…if i have an assignment for a magazine, i want to make the editors pleased….they will be most pleased if i take them a little farther than they might have wanted to go, but did not make them “lose face”…the work that is way way too “far out” for publishing in a particular magazine goes right into another stack for a possible book….good work will always find a place….

cheers, david

Gracias!!
Carlos

I was thinking about you wrote:
“…my result could be your “what the hell does he think he is doing?””
and I wonder… do you face this with editors?… is it common?

and about Caracas…
or Venezuela in general… if you want to come here sometime, December could be a great time… no matter of this or the next… if your interest to come here is personal… think near Christmas time… you’ll love local food in December… and the environment in general

The question;… your favorite (I think it’s your favorite), big, brown, world famous armchair… did it have some history? Some mysterious history? Funny story?

And… what if more important for you, your works, pictures, “results of your life” or life you had? (and still have but I mean effecting). What you feel when you looking at your pictures after this years?

What for you is more important, run to bunny or catch the bunny.
You are proud when you looking at your work? (you should be), but maybe it mean nothing for you, only your life, journey, people, events? How you see it as famous photographer? What for you is your photography on wall?… Satisfaction?… memories? Good job? Power for ego? Your place on earth… in society? just job?….? …?

Martin :)

A group of us are setting up a website celebrating our rural culture and heritage in our beautiful state. A large part of this culture is the cattlemen of the high country and the poems they inspired such as The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Patterson. An article was published by National Geographic about these people and you were the photographer. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature1/index.html
We were wondering if we would be able to use any of these photos?
We wish to preserve the dying culture of these people. Recently the Government outlawed the cattlemen from the High Country. We just happen to have the last “Man from Snowy River” as part of our team on the Great Divide. This year was his last time as a mountain cattleman in his beloved mountains. That man’s name is Phil Maguire. He is a proud and passionate battler who has fought this loss of our culture to the bitter end.
I was not sure where to post this request but you can leave a comment via our email by just clicking on my name.

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