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To: Crocodile who wrote (7993)	6/19/2004 10:43:10 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 21647

There's definitely something very sensory-rich going on in Michal's steet photos Absolutely! Every time I look at them, I think to myself, "This is not just really good product of someone I communicate with online. This is the work of an unusually talented artist that merits public attention." --Mike Buckley

To: Crocodile who wrote (7993)	6/19/2004 11:19:26 AM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 21647

Interesting that you should bring up b&w vs. color. You're going to laugh: once upon a time I swore up and down I'd NEVER do color. (My gal will of course never let me forget it. <g>) Why did I think that? I simply didn't understand color back then, at all. I believed that b&w strips off the surface, allowing the viewer more access to the actual "moment" underneath. I was dead wrong, and am now inclined to think good color photography in fact underlines the "moment," making it stronger. If/when one is aware of how color impacts us, of course, and uses it "correctly." I changed my mind on this matter when I started making theater photos, and was therefore forced to make color images as well as b&w ones of the same scene. As much as I hated to admit this to myself back then, the color ones were consistently stronger than the b&w ones. I therefore had no choice but to toss my dumb preconceptions. I still love b&w photography as such, but only turn my own into b&w when clients demand it, or when the moment simply doesn't work in color and I'm dying to make it a keeper. Happens very rarely these days.