Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net> To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] David Turnley's workshop day 3 >On 7/18/99 1:21 AM javalee wrote: > >>I left today feeling somewhat elated.. not so much from what my 'classmates' >>thought abt my work, but David did pick one of my shots as his favorite >>during whole workshop.. >>It was a picture of a couple kissing on a bench.. he says it's 'timeless, >>cud've been taken in Paris, etc'... I'm afraid to ask if the picture is >>really that good or was it the quality of the lens?? > >Ting...Is it the lens???? BU**SH** the lens DID NOT TAKE THE PHOTO. >You did. All the lens and camera are are tools nothing more. They are >inanimate pieces of glass and metal. Just because it is a Leica lens and >one stop faster than most other camera makers make is no reason to give >the lens some kind of supernatural abilities. > >Believe me if David Turnley liked your photos enough to ask you to shoot >photos of him and his kid then you definitely are doing something right. Didn't the late Herbert von Karajan happen to ask Anne-Sophie Mutter to play her fiddle for him one day? The rest is history. jh