SV: [Leica] Photographers named in Diana even

["Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>]

Hej Eric
	So, you say we still have half a week left to disagree with you.  In tha=
t
case .... Your list of the variety of assignments .... was really just a
breakdown of one small branch  of photography.  The "collection" of news
worthy images.  There are heaps of other branches out there.  A long list
could be compiled from most of them.  Some would require specialist
knowledge just to understand the list.  With all respect Eric, I would be=
t
that the likes of HCB or CW could sit on a bench in Times Square and fill=
 a
weeks supply of newspapers.  The variety would be equally astounding, but
with little effort. =20

Four days and counting.  :0)
Alan Hull



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> Fr=E5n: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
> Till: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> =C4mne: Re: [Leica] Photographers named in Diana even
> Datum:  den 11 mars 1998 06:17
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> At 10:23 AM 3/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
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> >Anyway, this is diagree-with-Eric week (didn't you check your
> >calendar?)  so I figured I'd get my part done!  There, I feel better.
>=20
> I don't care what anybody says. It doesn't matter what format cameras y=
ou
> use, that has nothing to do with variety of assignments.
>=20
> In one week, I photographed the President of the United States
whatisname.
> Bob Dole, items from the Tomb of King Tut (now that was really unusual
for
> even me!), a 100 year old lady on her birthday, a macro shot of a thist=
le
> weevil on the tip of the finger of an entomologist, a basketball game,
food
> from India, a dog, a dam on a river that was threatened, salmon, the to=
p
of
> a mountain, a grave site of a pioneer that was about five miles from an=
y
> road, a birthday party for some spoiled kid, a dead scorpion that some
guy
> killed after it stung him, the Portland Trailblazers and L.A. lakers
(oops,
> got that already). Some of it on chrome, some on black and white, some =
on
> color neg. Some in the studio, some not. Some assignments, some
self-assigned.
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> Food, fashion, weather, sports, macro, portrait, illustration, science,
> natural history, history, archeology, forestry, riots, pumpkins the siz=
e
of
> Volkswagons, the biggest rack (deer not women!) in the State, funny
people,
> angry people, trials, murders, accidents, fires, earthquakes, floods,
> modern and classic airplanes from the air and the ground, and every oth=
er
> single thing that makes life what it is. The world is our beat. Nobody
> shoots more than we do. We may not be as good at putting a can of beer =
on
> chrome that guys like you are Donal, but don't tell me you shoot more
> things than I do. The geographical area might be smaller, but that's no=
t
> necessarily saying anything. It just isn't true. More often than wanted
our
> lives are put in danger, and we go to it, not away from it. To top it
off,
> what we do becomes a part of history. Which is quite gratifying. Much o=
f
it
> isn't worth that designation, but when it is, it's way cool.
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> About the only thing we don't photograph is nudes. Even then, it might
> happen if it's news. <G>
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> This is disagree with Eric week? And I didn't know until it's almost ha=
lf
> over? Dang.
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
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> Give me ambiguity or give me something else.