Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg Locke wrote: > > At 07:13 PM 11/02/99 +0100, you wrote: > > > I believe it was Robert Capa who said, 'if your pictures > > aren't good enough then you aren't close enough'. > > Don't be too quick to take Capa's comment literally. I remember being at the Altamont Rock Festival in the 60s (Movie: "Gimme Shelter") and was photographing a bunch of Hell's Angels working over the guy that eventually got killed. One of the bikers noticed me and pointed his pool cue at me and came at me screaming and was large in the frame, especially the end of that stick--and that was while looking through a 20mm lens! You've never seen such a demonstration of back pedaling power and strength as I buried myself backwards into the crowd. - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com