Comments on: Shopping Mall

By: Akaky

Akaky — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:20:30 +0000

“-If you would prefer the exact opposite from everything above…. Mitt Romney is your man.”

He wasn’t, but he’ll do in a pinch.

By: Akaky

Akaky — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:09:54 +0000

Eva, you are making a common error in your thinking about the American education system. You are assuming that the point of the American education system is education, whereas in reality the American education system is a jobs program for adults; if the kids learn something along the way that’s nice, but it’s not really the object of the exercise.

By: michael kircher

michael kircher — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:02:06 +0000

Voting Day In USA!

-If you want US armed forces home from Afghanistan, not deployed to yet another middle-eastern country, vote for Obama
-If you make less than $250,000 a year and DONT want your taxes raised, vote for Obama
-If you’re a young adult and for whatever reason cannot get decent health insurance on your own and would like to stay on your parents, vote for Obama
-If you would like your mother, sister, girlfriend, wife and niece to have the best choice of health care, vote for Obama
-If regulations to keep in check rampant greed and corruption from bankers, wall street execs, CEOs and the like appeals to you, vote for Obama
-If Peace and Prosperity for the next four years is important to you, vote for Obama

-If you would prefer the exact opposite from everything above…. Mitt Romney is your man.

Go Vote!

By: eduardo sepulveda

eduardo sepulveda — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:25:16 +0000

David,

i’m not so sure about, but i think i can remember on the interview you make to Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris-Webb when Violet Island was presented on Burn… you asked if they were out to shoot together, and if i’m not wrong the answer was that they tried but it didn’t work so well so they used to walk alone and meet later to edit together…

By: eduardo sepulveda

eduardo sepulveda — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:07:01 +0000

i don’t see or think on education only in an utilitaristic way, i mean, as the main source of jobs only, but even if you do so, it becomes more or less obvious that some things dont come along to achieve just trough loosening the economy… you dont only need money to work on electronics and improve for instance the sensor of a camera, you need smart and well prepared people as well…

For latin america Mexico has the topest ranks in certain educational areas, but it is not easy for profesionals at certain grade levels to validate studies from country to country due to a lack of standarization agreements.

cheers!

By: Jim Powers

Jim Powers — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:17:26 +0000

David, this family would certainly be a piece of a story about the hollowing out of the middle class by rapidly escalating redistribution of wealth to the very wealthy in the U.S. Many folks just don’t get it that individuals and corporations didn’t contribute the $6 billion the current presidential campaigns will have collectively cost without attaching strings.

As for the current crop of high ISO cameras. Beats the heck out of trying to do this stuff with K200, doesn’t it!

By: eva

eva — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:15:29 +0000

dq..

The top one.. along with the bottom one on “Dogs” post are the two pictures that, of those we have seen and just to me, fall into the “keepers” section, that I see even when not looking at them.. no matter if they will end up in the book or whatever will come out of all this.. keepers..

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:57:09 +0000

i have thought a lot about this…most of my work most of my life has been while i was working alone….the “entourage” was intended as an “extended family” and i think a few photographs will come out of that part as well…yet the real photographs will come like this…the way they always have with me…for sure i could have done none of the Robles family pictures if anyone had been with me no matter how well intended their presence…

i leave in the morning for home..i will do a tech review along with the portfolio i will present…i had four different cameras and have thoughts on all of them….

i used no lights of any kind except those provided by whomever designed this parking lot by my hotel…picture shot straight up as i said goodnight….this is a nod to new tech though…3200iso and still super quality is one of the new things i do embrace….

cheers, david

By: mw

mw — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:27:34 +0000

Better question is how that car shot was lighted? Did you have a flash in the car and bounce it off the roof?

By: Jim Powers

Jim Powers — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:23:44 +0000

Tight photos of families crowded into cars remind me too much of Mary Ellen Marks photo of a homeless family in their car. Bad connotation for me.

By: dq

dq — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:14:23 +0000

this top picture, as eva says, “a keeper.” (or she was referring to other?) in my opinion, this is a classic — the car, people in the car, a long tradition, all the greats have done these — relates too to your ‘out for a family drive’ original scrapbook…

funny how the lack of the entourage has let this happen, without your fixers and drivers and assistants… one wonders how this trip would have gone had you solo’d from the get-go… certainly gone differently, maybe not “better,” and we can’t really judge out here in burnland because…

you promised, once, tech talk about the leica s2, or if not actual tech-talk, your thoughts. will that happen? not that i’ll be picking one of those up anytime soon. or in fact anytime EVER… minor question, not so important, you seem to be dragging a strobe around to light these scenes. true?

…

from introducing yourself to a desk-clerk in training to making these series of family portraits. you DO have a gift, not all of us are so un-shy…

looking forward to seeing what transpires from here on…

By: Cesar

Cesar — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:49:55 +0000

Here in Spain University is not as expensive as in other countries…, but now taxes are increasing a lot…
A good Public Health System and Public Education should be for everyone, and governments should invest and support them, as and investment for future…
First picture is beautiful…

By: mw

mw — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:37:51 +0000

It’s true the U.S. school system is a mess, but just about anyone can go to college and I’m pretty sure that includes the Robles and their friends. Problem is, unless you are wealthy, you are likely to come out owing a lot of money and end up spending the next 10 years or so as an indentured servant to the banks. For many, it does work out best financially to indenture oneself to the military for a few years instead, though several people I’ve known who were promised an exciting new career by the recruiter ended up in the infantry riding a humvee rather than studying advanced electronics or architecture.

By: eva

eva — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:05:59 +0000

I’ll never understand the US school system, doesn’t seem right to me..

I think you’ve got a keeper shot here..

By: gaetano belverde

gaetano belverde — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:36:45 +0000

Wow, wonderful mood. I love the first one. Good as usual