Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joel- I haven't finished reading all my digests- so I'm sure that you've been flamed for this off handed comment of yours! But, just in case: FLAME ON!!! I can speak from knowing B.D. and seeing his work- he's quite an accomplished photographer- whether you can prove the same would be interesting. B.D. is also a gentleman, not some obnoxious boor. Realizing that you hail from the 'Bastion of Civilization' perhaps it irks you that someone felt srongly enough to comment upon 'civilized behaviour'.... however, I don't see B.D. as " defining and defending Western civilization", perhaps you are of the school of Papparazzi, and this viewpoint offends your work habits. The very point of someone saying to someone on the LUG "Why is it, though, that I get the impression you are not a photographer???" is rather ridiculous- we come here because we have a common interest: PHOTOGRAPHY!! Perhaps some of us are amatuers, some of us are professionals (this is how I earn my living- how about you?), but I would venture to say that all of us are photographers. Some of us are just idiots as well. Bob Keene (Untypically "Nobody's Pal") > >Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:45:20 0100 >From: Joel Ohle <j_ohle@fetchmail.co.uk> >Subject: [Leica] RE: What I did today -- GET A LIFE > >BD Colen aka Dr. Blacktape (?) aka Brian Colen writes: > >Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:14:30 -0000From: "B. D. Colen" ><bdcolen@earthlink.net> >Subject: RE: [Leica] What I did today ..or...GET A LIFE! >I know I'm going to piss a lot of my fellow LUGers off, but I am quite >amazed by this thread...."Backing off" has nothing to do with the fact that >there is "little point in making photographs of someone who does not want to >cooperate with you - assuming we are not talking here about a genuine >newsworthy scene, being photographed by someone who has every intention of >passing said photo along to a news organization. Rather, it has to do with >what does or does not make a society civil. Why do any of us think we have >the right, for our own amusement, to photograph someone who makes clear they >do NOT want to be photographed, particularly someone we don't know. >In photographic relations, as in relations between the sexes, NO means NO. >What don't you understand about that, as the feminists are wont to ask? >B.D. AND Dr. Blacktape.> >### >It is quite wonderful that there still someone defining and defending Western >civilization. Why is it, though, that I get the impression you are not a >photographer??? I would guess that every discipline has its armchair >pontificators. ### > >Joel C. Ohle