Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is excellent advice, B.D. I try to follow that--always carry a camera, even if I am just driving to the supermarket to buy milk, but not force myself into "photograpy mode". Many times I go out and come back with not a single frame exposed, but I know that if I do go out without the camera, Murphy's Law will strike and I will come upon a scene which would have made a photo worthy of HCB. Nathan B. D. Colen wrote: > > For whatever it's worth, try letting go of the idea that 'now I am going to > go take pictures,' and simply carry a camera everywhere. When you see > something that grabs you by the gut, shoot it. Otherwise, save your film. My > guess is that you will be allot happier with the smaller number of images > you get that way that you will with those you're getting now - which, if the > truth be known, are probably a good deal better than you think they are. ;-) > > Good luck! > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry Ting > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:30 AM > To: Leica-users > Subject: [Leica] Mid-life crisis ??? > > > > They say photography has less to do with technique > (which can be mastered by anyone if the desire is > there) but more to do with form and the ability to see > the world around us. > > Well I remembered when I first took an interest in > photography in my teens, I was able to see all the > possibilities and quite frankly IMHO I was able to be > creative in "sight and form". At the time I lacked the > technique, but my mentors always comment on the > originality and creativity of my pictures. > > Now 40 years later, since I retired recently, I went > back to my old love in photography. Now I have the > time of the world, travelling in different parts of > the world, I found the zest and the creativity of my > pictures are gone. All my pictures lack the snap and > form that I thought I used to have. While the > technical side of my pictures are good, but the form > and the image have nothing behind it. I was delighted > right after retirement when I first thought I could > pursue my love in photography is turning out to be a > disappointment -- to a point that after months and > hundreds of rolls of film, no picture possess the > image that I feel proud enough to even post on the > forum for any feedbacks. I'm indeed a little perplexed > and depressed. It almost seems like a similar feeling > of one reflecting what one could do both in physical > ability as well as perception in life during one's > youth, is now gone as one reaches mid-life. Could it > all be a case of too much of anything being > detrimental and I'm indeed going through a cycle of > photography overload ? > > Any old-timers here ever gone through a similar > situation ? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html