RE: [Leica] writing was Photo books under the tree?

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

There is absolutely NO question about the difficulty of the balancing
act - I don't think that anyone can do both things well at the same
time. But the difficulty of the balancing act doesn't explain why so few
people can do both things well, but separately. On the other hand, look
at how few people can really do either thing extremely well. :-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:40 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] writing was Photo books under the tree?


> find. Maybe it's a "right brain-left brain" thing.

Possibly, possibly ... but it could also be that both activities, do be
done well, demand our full attention and energy. It's hard to do two
things that demand our full attention at one time. One of them will
dominate and we will end up taking pictures subordinated to the text or
pictures that dominate the text. Tough balance.

Be well!
Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Ridings
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:37 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Photo books under the tree?
>
>
> Ah, BD, don't take it too hard. The LUG's like that. We've been pretty

> civil the month of December but it's starting to wear thin :)
>
> Why you and Kyle are proof that there are photographers who _can_ 
> write.
>
> It depends, of course, but with the days of Life over, ... it's not a 
> bad thing to be able to write and to take snaps. I for one would like 
> to do both (but it's hard).
>
> Cheers to all,
> Daniel
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, bdcolen wrote:
>
> > Bill Satterfield wrote, in response to my opining on the subject of 
> > photographers who can and can't write...
> >
> > BD, who cares? :-)
> > ----
> > To which I respond -
> >
> > God, I love the LUG...:-{...I was responding to the following..
> >
> > Mark Pope wrote:
> > >
> > >> I did buy myself a copy of Don McCullin's autobiography, 
> > >>'Unreasonable Behaviour' just before Christmas, which is next on 
> > >>my reading list.
> > >FWIW, its a good thing Don McCullin took wonderful pictures as his 
> > >writing is hard to digest.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bill 
> > Satterfield
> > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 3:21 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo books under the tree?
> >
> >
> > BD, who cares? :-)
> >
> > bdcolen wrote:
> >
> > >While people who have visually oriented talent often seem to have 
> > >it in
> >
> > >more than one media, and while musical talent and some degree of 
> > >visual
> >
> > >talent often seem related, I don't think that it's at all unusual 
> > >to find that someone talented in a visual field - say photography -

> > >can't express themselves using written language. Which is to say - 
> > >there's no
> >
> > >reason to expect that a good photographer will be a good writer. 
> > >For an
> >
> > >example of this, take a look at Larry Towle's Mennonites - great 
> > >photos; awful prose - although the reporting is pretty good.
> > >
> > >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 Wade 
> > >Heninger
> > >Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 1:52 PM
> > >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
> > >leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > >Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo books under the tree?
> > >
> > >
> > >At 03:28 PM 12/26/2002 +0000, Mark Pope wrote:
> > >
> > >>No photo books for Christmas, unless you count the manual for my 
> > >>Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III...;-)  One seriously happy chappie 
> > >>over
>
> > >>here! I did buy myself a copy of Don McCullin's autobiography, 
> > >>'Unreasonable Behaviour' just before Christmas, which is next on 
> > >>my reading list.
> > >>
> > >
> > >FWIW, its a good thing Don McCullin took wonderful pictures as his 
> > >writing is hard to digest.
> > >
> > >...................................................
> > >w a d e  h e n i n g e r
> > >i n t e r a c t i o n  d e s i g n
> > >a d o b e  s y s t e m s ,  i n c .
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