Annthrax Coulter in Popular Photography (my LTTE)

[regnaD kciN]

So, I pick up the April issue of Popular Photography to check the D200 review and 30D preview, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a feature article on a photo shoot (in more ways than one) featuring Annthrax Coulter getting in some target practice at the Taxi Driver gun range.

The following is my letter to Popular Photography:

I note with some interest that Popular Photography has decided to dignify far-right pundit Ann Coulter (who, among other things, advocates clubbing liberals with baseball bats, bombing the New York Times offices, and forcing Muslims to convert to Christianity) with a gun-range photo feature in your April 2006 issue.

It made me wonder what's coming next. A test shoot at a neo-Nazi rally, to see how DSLRs handle those critical shades of brown? Or maybe high-ISO, natural-light shooting at a Klan cross-burning? Truly, the possibilities seem endless.

You are invited to share your own opinions with their editors at [e-mail].

:spank:

[F.Gordon]

1. Are you fucking serious?

What "technique" were they discussing in the photo feature? :eyes: The kind of filter you need to use on a guy to make them look "girlish".
:spank:

Who was the photog? I'd like to see if he/she has a web site with a comments section.
:evilgrin:

Tell Popular Photography to shove it. That is total bullshit. Now the slugs are infesting photography.
:wtf:

Best magazine on the market IMHO today is...

http://www.digitalphotopro.com/

[regnaD kciN]

2. The photographer was Michael Lewis...

...and the photo session was originally for Esquire. (I can only hope it was for a "Women We Detest" feature.) No web site for Lewis that I can find from the magazine.

What "technique" were they discussing in the photo feature? :eyes: The kind of filter you need to use on a guy to make them look "girlish".

Well, despite the rumors posted by some here, it's kind of hard to disguise Annthrax's gender, especially in a tight-fitting tank top. But that face...I haven't seen an expression like that since Night of the Living Dead.

[F.Gordon]

3. Here's the George Romero shot........

http://www.michaellewisphotography.com/detail.asp?category=2&page=1&photo=167&sequence=1

And here is the photog's site.... Not sure why PopPoop featured the Zombie shoot and not one of his other ones.
:shrug:

Interesting self-protrait on home page :eyes:

http://www.michaellewisphotography.com/index.html

[Blue_In_AK]

5. My daughter got me a subscription to that one

for Christmas. A lot of it is over my head, but there is quite a bit of interesting stuff in there.

[TahitiNut]

4. Shame it wasn't an article on forensic photography techniques.

:shrug: :grr:

[GOPFighter]

6. I haven't received that issue yet

Thanks for warning me! I will send a letter of my own. I may even cancel my subscription...

[RagingInMiami]

7. One thing I've noticed since becoming a full-fledged photographer

from just being a writer who shoots photos, is that photographers are a lot more liberal than writers.

I don't know what PP was thinking when they put her in the magazine.

I think your LTTE might get published. I might fire one off also.