Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Somebody's cranky! >:-o At 11:08 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote: >All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs >who don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch >of hypo and all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on >skateboards and young women (??????) with metal things in their >faces, this isn't photography, it's GARBAGE. These people should be >in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? If my daughters had >ever come home looking like that, my wife and I would have taken >care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz, Eisendstaedt, >Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to me), wouldn't >tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't understand anything >about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is where they're >going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN DEAD, and >NIKON stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they were FINISHED. > >I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, >LEICA, makes me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I >compose them in my mind, and capture them on film, and then I >develop this film and PRINT it in my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains >have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras and they don't understand >anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so bad. The so called >"digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION OF AN >IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred >years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren >will use them and they will be just as capable as producing >PHOTOGRAPHS then as they are now. > >I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this. > >George > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's >FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information