Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I am not suggesting, as some responses have seemed to think I was, that those of us without inborn talent can't become quite proficient at photography and get enormous enjoyment out of it. All I'm suggesting is that I think artistic talents of all kinds are in large part genetic - and, in fact, most people who possess artistic talent in one area also possess it, although they may not refine it, in another. $$$$$$$$$$$$ G'day... B. D. This is close to my feelings. If you can see then you can "learn" to photograph, but even if I can see, I would never be able to paint. This does not mean that I belittle photography as an art, but rather I embrace it as an art I may be able to really enjoy, and stretch what talent I may have towards its limit. I live by the Ken Rosewall statement, when told by an opponent that he'd been lucky as the ball scraped the net and fell in - ----"Yes, and the more I practice, the luckier I seem to become :-)" Alastair Firkin, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html