Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:48 AM 2/8/98 +0000, you wrote: David: Working on my latest project I spent a great deal of time making photographs in public places with lots of tourists, many of them wanna be photographers. I enjoyed talking with every one of them. It helped to pass the time waiting for the sun to move. It broke up the lonliness of 11 hours days hiking through nowhere alone. Lastly, hearing their stories of connection helped me to learn other perspectives on the place I was photographing . Maybe 1 out of 100 even gave me a good idea. In an age when everybody is down on photographers, it's nice to have a few people who respect what we do. Let's not blow it. Tom >However it is an *excellent* way of confusing & deterring camera nerds. >The sort of people who come up behind you when you're working and want to >tell you how much better their Wibblax (with 20-2000 f96-128 zoom) is than >your hopelessly overpriced M6. > >Well, I say "excellent"...a well sharpened fireman's axe would be better, >but it's a little heavy to carry around, and considered by some to be >rather anti-social... > >