lawrence_title

Thanks for all of the comments and terrific reviews. I guess it was worth sitting up on the balcony for some time for wait for the right moment. Between playing with and adjusting the focal plane of the homemade lens and waiting for the right group of people, I was pretty lucky to get this result.

I have been toying with the idea of buying a flexbody to further my interest in selective focus, but I don't think it would be easy to capture pictures like this on the fly, using the Flexbody in a handheld fashion. Plus, with my homemade lens and the 202FA I can still do incamera metering, which allows me to point, meter, focus, and shoot all without a tripod.

After shooting tons of rolls of straight images of Foster's Great Court @ the British

Museum, I put my loupe lens on my Hasselblad to try to avoid the cliche architectural

image. Rather than trying to shoot free of people, I tried to take advantage of their

passage through this beautiful space, as in this image.

versailles ... atget ... kenna ... conical hedges ... chateau ... selective focus ... avoid

cliche ?