Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Luggers, Forget the new spectacles, I always try to follow the words of the prophet Bresson: "Look at everything as if you have never seen it before." Jon "screw mount leica" Mitchell (he-he-he) > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 22:29:05 -0600 (MDT) > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > From: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes) > Subject: Seeing everything new > Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > I've done it. I've joined the duffers club. I am old. > > Yesterday a man with a diploma told me I needed eyeglasses. I swallowed hard > and agreed. Today I picked up a new pair which were ground to my needs, and > I must say I am amazed! > > There are things in my yard that I have never seen before. Leaves on trees, > blades of grass, the flowers on my prized lavendula angustifolia - they all > jump out in a way that I can truly say I have never seen before. I am > visually born again. Hell, even television looks better. > > I took my wife on a drive through the farms that I have photographed for the > last three years. Actually, she took me, as she did the driving. I noticed > things that I had passed over dozens of times before because they had seemed > dull and not very interesting. Today they were sharp and saturated. The > textures were stunning. All new. > > The difference seems to be in the sharpness of lines, in the seperation of > colors. This has made me think about cameras and sharpness. For me, when I > see a picture that really grabs me, it is almost always in the way detail is > rendered. Regardless of the degree of contrast in the scene, when I am able > to pick out every last bit of seperation in the hues it gets me. > > I cannot say wether my new super human vision will make my pictures better. > I can only say that I am excited about seeing again. > > > Regards, > > > > Ben W. Holmes > Boulder, CO > > visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/ > Leica serial numbers and Leica classifieds at > http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/photodat.htm > > > Website: <http://www.panama.c-com.net/~jmitch>