Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My photographing abilities, if one can call them that, is nothing but snapshoting compared to Kyle's of course, but the reasoning should not be hard to fathom. It is much easier to opine rather than take pictures. So the suggestion is to do PAW or keep pushing that shutter. It is easy to meet your LUG pals and share a beer or a glass of whiskey and snap pictures of each other across the tables and call it a day. It is easy to go to the streets and snap pictures of passerbys and call it street photography. It is easy to sneak up on street bums and snap pictures of them and then sneak off and call it the plight of the street people. It is hard to construct a photograph like Kyle. It's hard to walk in the Rose of the Shires and see the same scenes that GB does. It's hard to wait like a fly on the wall day in and day out to do the ICU pictures that Steve takes. It's hard to take pictures of street people with a heart and compassion, and not just still life subjects. We know there are people down and out. What do the street bums people show? Their pain and suffering? What stories are being told? At 07:19 PM 4/18/2005, Ted Grant wrote: >Well Holy Cow eh? > >B.D. makes a comment and I follow with a thought and one would think the >world just came to an end. It's obvious some of you lads haven't been >around here very long or you would understand from many years ago when >Kyle Cassidy offered the opinion on "No bums!" > >Hey Kyle if yer out there good buddy would you please enlighten all these >folks? Thanks >ted // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)