From: Clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 12/12/02-08:54:51 PM Z
The Weekly World News is highly underrated as a news source. Where else
would you find information that was obviously so thought-provoking?
Clay
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:41 PM, Sandy King wrote:
>
>
> We really need to take this Urban Legend thread back to picture taking.
>
> OK, so I am standing in line at the grocery store check-out lane today
> and see this tabloid headline that says, "Alligators in the Sewers of
> New York." Being from Louisiana and having had to deal as a kid with
> alligators in the back yard that wandered in from a nearby bayou (and
> various versions of poisonous snakes to, I might add) my first
> reaction was to think, wow, wonder what kind of lighting equipment one
> would need for that kind of work? Maybe some of you city street
> photographers could offer a suggestion?
>
> Then I thought about process. Anyone ever seen a bromoil or gum print
> of an alligator? Now, dead birds and dead fish I have seen but
> alligators? But really, is there any rule that says the alligator can
> not be treated as a pictorial subject? I personally figure this would
> have to be a carbon to capture all that beautiful skin texture, but
> maybe a nice green gum over cyanotype might work?
>
> Now don't tell me that story about the alligators in the sewers of New
> York is only an urban legend?
>
> Wow, got to chew some more on that cactus stalk!
>
>
>
> Sandy King
>
> PS: No offense meant to anyone, including but not limited to the
> following entities: city street photographers, cyanotype, carbon, gum,
> and bromoil printers, people from Louisiana (who really know
> alligators and snakes when they see them), pictorial photographers,
> people from other states who may live near or on bayous, readers of
> tabloids, citizens of New York (who may or may not recognize
> alligators and snakes when they see them), snake and alligator lovers,
> snake and alligator haters, photographers who hate texture, and last
> but not least, cactus stalk chewers.
>
>
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