Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, Why is that depressing? Most people like what they have been told is good. By necessity, it has been done to death if it is in the vernacular. The true artist moves the society by producing things that most people react badly too the first time they see, feel, touch, drink this new thing. The reason most artists are very poor is that most new vision ends up being ignored/hated vision; only a small fraction of new initiatives ever get any reception. It should be enough that you are reasonably happy with your work or at least happy with the direction that it is going. Now, as to the health benefits of red wine, I think you need to score another visit to Africa where the sun shines and the weather is warm. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/22/06, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/22/06, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Some people don't understand when I'm told to "go out and take pictures > for > > something to do." It's quite meaningless and depressing to go out and > take > > some pictures without a reason or end product in mind! > > You want to know what is worse Ted? > > I do that sometimes. I just go out and take pictures. They end up > being pictures of nature, something that I really don't get off on. I > tell my wife that they are the pictures I take when I am bored and > just have my camera along when I'm taking a walk to keep my > middle-aged arteries less choked (red wine is my preference, but it's > not really accepted to hit the bottle at 8 am). > > So ... I walk around the 'hood, take pictures of trees and fog and > stuff like that. > > People around here _like_ them. They actually ask to _buy_ them. Now > that is depressing. The pictures that _I_ like, they go ho-hum. The > pictures I burn off just to get the film out of the camera (I'm > allergic to keeping a roll of film in the camera), _those_ pictures > they like and actually pay for. > > Now _that_ is depressing. > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >