Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/12

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Subject: [Leica] Barnack Award 2015 - Public Award - it looks like Leica photography
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:40:23 -0500
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Bravo! Sonny.
Well thought.
Well said.
And speaking directly to the work under discussion;
rather than commenting on the "state of the art world"
which I consider vibrant, exciting, stimulating 
as ever.

a note off the iPad, George

On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure why one would go to the effort of owning a camera, making 
> images if the goal is not to show someone else what you saw in that 
> "augenblick" in time.
> 
> It seems to me this thread has been pretty harsh on a young photographer 
> who gained modest success by coming up by standing in a typhoon, coming up 
> with a cohesive theme and following through.  Contrary to some of the 
> remarks here, several of the shots are pretty dang good in composition and 
> drew me in.  I'm really happy I looked at them before I read the thread.
> 
> She saw something and wanted to share it.  
> 
> This whole thread sounds like a bunch of jealous old farts who own too 
> much gear and post too few pictures.


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