Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is the difference between a "passion" and simply a job. A passion is your life. A job is something you do to sustain a passion or life. Mark is extremely lucky that his passion is his job and his life. Jim At 09:45 AM 8/10/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >I've had periods of my professional career where it was fast and furious all >week most weeks. I'd not want to shoot pictures on a weekend. I always wondered >if I'd ever take a vacation and be relieved to have an opportunity to get away >from photography. I don't think I have. I still shoot plenty on a vacation and >always have. A different surrounding how can I resist? I've heard of some big >time shooters just bringing along a point and shoot to shoot their family on a >vacation. Beyond my comprehension!! > >It's also rare for commercial photographers to bother with the expense and time >involved with a show in a gallery. Not the case with me either, I've pretty >much >had a show in a gallery about every year of my career. I get to still think of >myself as an artist. And not a shlock artist. >So I'm still shooting for love as well as money. I'm glad it didn't turn >into that. >Mark Rabiner >><Snip> >> On vacation I take either zero or one camera. Zero if I want a real holiday. >> If I take the camera, it has two lenses. It's a holiday, right? >> >> Sometimes I want to see the world not through a viewfinder. >> >> -- >> Johnny Deadman