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Deviant Art - Chris Weeks - CameraQuest Street Photography Contest !

SEE WINNING PHOTO HERE!

Gray Voigtlander R3A with 40/1.4 SC Single Coat lens, side grip, deluxe strap, LH-5 lens hood and Abrahamsson Mini-Soft Release!

So I am waiting in line at Saint Starbucks and see this guy with a battered black paint Leica M6 TTL and equally battered 35/1.4 Summilux.  The guy was wearing sun glasses inside at about 9AM, looking a little worse for wear, and maybe a bit of a hangover. So I asked the guy something like "Do you actually shoot it?" Turns out the answer is yes. He is Chris Weeks, one of the leading Hollywood celebrity photographers and probably the last substantial Leica M film photographer in Hollywood. Not to be confused with the papa-rat-si (misspelling intentional), the stars hire Chris to take the pics -- along with magazines, wire services, etc.

Anyway, we became friends. When not taking and selling pics, one of Chris's favorite net pastimes is DeviantArt.com -- owned by his friend Angelo. It was Chris' idea to have a Street Photography Contest with first prize being a gray Voigtlander Bessa R3A, 40/1.4 SC, LH-5 hood, side grip, deluxe strap, and MiniSoftRelease (pictured ABOVE), and a roll of coveted B/W Agfa APX 25, over $1100 of goodies. Chris did most of the ground work over the past four months, talking Angelo and myself into it, defining the contest rules etc, getting an impressive list of Contest judges, and writing the best article on Street Photography that I have ever seen (but be forewarned, it is written for the very spirited DeviantArt audience).   File size due to lots of pics. High Speed ISP a good idea.   Yes, you have to register at DeviantArt to enter.

Read about the contest here http://news.deviantart.com/article/21794/

See contest entries at http://browse.deviantart.com/project...etphotography/

Download Chris's excellent 160 page Street Photography Article here http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38038974/  WARNING: the article is written in the DeviantArt often explicative style and it is a large file to download.  So you really need a high speed ISP and an open mind to appreciate the article.

The contest ended November 30, 2006

SEE WINNING PHOTO HERE!


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