Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sometimes it really helps to get it all out in the open. Thanks George ;-) george karvman writes: > 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 Alastair Firkin www.afirkin.com www.familyofman2.com