Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/11

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Subject: Re: REF.: "Seeing"
From: creadick@mindspring.com (Nowell Creadick)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:23:11 -0400 (EDT)

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>     >Thus if you are "blind", if you have lost your original curiosity and
>     >spontaneity, the freshness you had when you were a child, you will
>     >have to recover these abilities. Learning to see may take a long
>     >time. You will never finish really.
>
>     Here is a very important thread!
>
>     I am always trying to discover approaches and methods and practicing
>     the "seeing" of emotionally charged and high impact images.  I have
>     images in mind before I go out and then when I do venture out
>     everything around me is blah.  Any ideas out there on what it takes to
>     "see", identify such images?
>
>     Ken

Ken...I think any photographer would benefit greatly from going through the
book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"....I forget the author.  It
is a famous book for learning artists and widely available.     Nowell