Okay photogs - what photographer was I (emulating, ripping off, copying, doing an homage to).
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The answer - maybe - is that you are all winners and that I'm the mixed up one. Andreas Feininger did a famous shot (seen here) of a person with the camera aligned to give a robotic look. One day, after my eyes were examined, I asked my optometrist if he'd mind sitting behind the eye gizmo for me. And that's what you see here.
At the time I was thinking of a Feininger shot the way I remembered it. But I could have sworn that his shot was also of an optometrist. Now that I go back through Feiningers images I see that I may have transfigured his camera shot into the optometrist shot. Or maybe there is an optometrist shot by Feininger but I can't find it anywhere.
So possibly this is an "inspired by" shot that has some originality of it's own (unless I'm still wrong and Feininger actually did an optometrist shot somewhere). At any rate, that let's you off the hook because according to contest rules if I myself can't even be sure - then certainly you, the contest winner are no longer eligible to buy me Leica lenses.
"No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics." -Andreas Feininger
"A technically perfect photograph can be the world’s most boring picture." -Andreas Feininger
