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Subject: [Leica] Juan's fire hydrants
From: banacloj at mac.com (Juan Gea-Banacloche)
Date: Mon Jun 7 08:39:02 2004
References: <7629EB4795F39146A4D2ECC655CD68EA01DBB97B@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

Yes, I know, but thank you for the advice nonetheless. For the time 
being, I am trying to get a PAW with Leica gear. That is the closest to 
my main photographic project that I can think of.
To put my scans where my words are, I uploaded my first weekly picture 
yesterday:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/JGB-Leica-PAW-Project/PAW_20040606_02

Of course, comments are welcome.
Thanks,

Juan

On Jun 7, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Juan sed:
>
>> Kyle,
>> Thanks for the encouragement! I was having serious doubts about this
>> project... [snip] In a few years, I will fill up a folder.
>
>> Juan
>
> The reason you're having serious doubts about it is that it's a dubious
> project. That said, it had better not be your _only_ project. You'll 
> need a
> good half dozen others. One good thing to keep in mind (and this is, of
> course, my own two cents, so take it for what's it's worth) if you 
> can't
> imagine going into someone's house or office and looking at a bunch of 
> your
> photos of [insert project X] hanging on their wall and thinking "wow, 
> that
> looks nice" -- then you probably need to move on. My advice is to keep
> photographing fire hydrants but only incidentally, don't make it your 
> main
> focus. Unless you're looking for a show at the national fireman's
> association banquet in reno this year.
>
> kc
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