Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Rob Appleby wrote: > Surely you can do something and also think about it critically? > > -- Rob Thinking is entirely possible! Before or after the doing. My view is nothing happens until the doing and I applaud the doers. Everything prior to the doing is fundamentals, practice, or theory—craft—and everything afterwards is interpretation. Art occurs where the shutter is released. I once was a painter and for me the first stroke defined the painting, the Decisive Stroke as it were. I could never recover from a bad first stroke, the energy was lost and the painting would become ordinary. Did I think about the first stroke, absolutely not! I see that corollary in photography..jf - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html