Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 15:28 Subject: Re: [Leica] <no Leica> Photo professionals > This is such bullshit. I dunno. It seems to have worked for photojournalism thus far. > Shooting a photo of a bunch of kids crying at the site > where their friends died is not going to change anyone's > minds. How do you know that? > I have always thought reasoning like this is one of the most > inane people use to justify shooting in these situations anyway. I'm glad there around, since someone should be recording these situations for posterity. > People are going to do what they do.....hell I have seen bodies > crushed and burned beyond any semblance to a human figure and I > still speed. Hmm... I've never seen bodies like that, and yet I never speed. > Anyway as I said in the post I already had the photos I needed > so I left. I guess they were not that bad as one ran front > page of the paper and won a 3 rd pace in the region six NPPA > (national Press Photographers Association) monthly clip contest. Good for you. Is that what motivates you to take pictures, then? > Anthony, unless you have been there in situations like this > you have no ground to talk as you do. Sure I do. I'm doing it right now. > Anyone who has worked news, esp in a big city like Atlanta, > GA, has seen things that stay in your mind for life and you > learn when it is best to just cut and run. So? It's an occupational hazard. -- Anthony