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[mysterysong]

I've spent a lot of today/this afternoon looking at the Lomography community.

I like the philosophy of point-and-shoot behind Lomography. I shall have to practise more with my ColourSplash.

And now that I've finished reading Robert Capa's book on photojournalism during WW2, I can get stuck in Julius Shulman's book on architectural photography.

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[muddy]

Robert Capa - was he the guy who was with the first wave on Omaha beach only to have nearly all his photos destroyed by some idiot back in the lab in England?

[mysterysong]

Yes! He took over 160 photos that day, and only 8 survived the lab in the end, and they ended up all blurry. Apparently they were the best photographs that had been seen in the war as well. He was very philosophical about it in his memoirs.

[muddy]

Yeah - I just Wiki ed him and realised I did know him. His Spanish Civil War stuff comes up a bit as well - very iconic.

I am getting a bit worried about my 'bloke cred' - I used the words 'Sidney Nolan' in conversation earlier in the week and now I am talking famous photographers :P

[mysterysong]

So you've seen his famous photo of the Spanish Loyalist getting shot? That one's pretty amazing, but there's another similar sort of one that almost had me in tears, of an Allied soldier shot in Paris.

[devilrose]

Coloursplash is just a synonym for Sex Toy.

[mysterysong]

NOOOOOOOOO!

You wait.

I'll stun you all.

Also - I found a cool panoramic camera in our cupboard. Let's go somewhere I can take parnoramic photos, ie. a big mountain.

[devilrose]

Panoramic Photos...phft, you just want one so you have a camera that takes wide enough shots of the massive orgies that you attend with your SEX TOY CAMERA.

[mysterysong]

The orgies that you happen to be in?

ZING