*sigh*

[rowangolightly]

Now, this is the one I really wanted to be in on...

http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59968679

And then there's the girls... (aren't they beautiful?...ornery, but who'd want 'em to be any different?)

http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59920907

The man just takes breath-taking picture after breath-taking picture:

http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59920802
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59921195
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59920916
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59920776
I mean, look at the light in this one....
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59921113
and shadow in this one...
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59613787
and how succintly he captures character...
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59613866
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59614053
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59614118
and expression...
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59613922
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59552952
*giggle*...yeah, expression...
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59553143
and um...religious fervor?
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/59241196

and this about says it all...
http://www.pbase.com/paul42/image/58839339

The man is an amazing artist with his camera.

Thank you, Paul

Comments

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

absolutely amazing!

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't he?
And he posts them and gives away hardcopies of them to everyone he can find with cards that say he doesn't charge; it is his way of giving back for the pleasure everyone else gives to him! Everybody down there loves him dearly, no suprise there at all....

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

that's really wonderful. I'm jealous. He should come up to KC!

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was wishing....

[mikeoquinn.livejournal.com]

He went to MN one year, and was asked to leave by a member of the security team because of his camera gear. He decided not to return to MN or KC (same management, as I understand it). This was years back, though, and he's received many offers of amnesties, beers, tickets, and thanks should he return. I've not heard whether he's reconsidered or not.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

*faceplam* Well, trust me, the security team is waaay different at KC (right purpledumbass?) and would never treat him that way!

Dammit, wish I'd known that when I was down there, I'd've seen what I could do to change that!

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

how bizarre! did they think it was a gun?

[mikeoquinn.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the exactitudes of what he posted, and he's pulled the MN pics from his site (for space reasons, I'm told - he was quite proud of them), but apparently someone (patron, security, employee; can't remember) got their knickers in a wad about him taking people's pictures without them signing a waiver first. Add to that the fact that his camera is well-endowed (I swear, he could take a photo of an errant nosehair on one side of Crown Meadow while standing at the other), that he tends to snicker when he captures a great moment, and that his targets (especially when he first started doing this) were primarily women, and I guess this particular security person saw him as a creepy stalker-type guy that was taking pictures of boobs, boobs, and more boobs.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Their loss, most definitely, and as a result, KC's as well. I get so pissed off when a little-Hitler type of personality has a little sand box in which to be in charge; that sort often ruins things for everybody else.

I wonder if he'd come up to KC for a special event sometime if somebody asked him nicely.

[mikeoquinn.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine what 'somebody' that would be...

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

...me either....

[grnvixen.livejournal.com]

Pssst, two words: White Hart.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Um hmmmm