Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:52:43 -0400<br> Spaketh kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade)<br> About What I did today -- GET A LIFE<br <br> > 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!!!<br> > <br> > 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.<br> <br> You use the term papparazzi as if it were a perjorative term. Do you have a problem with aggressive entrepeneural photojournalist earning a living??? I always like discussions of privacy and ethics from a culture where the highlight include web-cams in the mall and God only knows where else.<br> <br> > 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!!<br> <br> An interest in photography does not a photographer make. Preachers preach, photographers get the picture and sometimes better than preachers.<br> <br> > 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.<br><br> Being a photographer does not preclude one from being an idiot as well --- just a well seeing idiot.<br><br> Joel C. Ohle ___________________________________________________________________ Sent via Fetchmail - free email service at http://www.fetchmail.com