Re: [Leica] RE: Eric's site & the LUG Gestapo

["Bruce R. Slomovitz" <brslomo@erols.com>]

Amen Stephen.  However I sometimes feel that many people who subscribe to
this group are not very comfortable discussing ideas.  If that's true then
the recent thread about the relationship between shooting guns and taking
pictures may have been quite apropos.   It seems to me that many gun
enthusiasts are just fascinated with the hardware and not with the art or
purpose to which it is used.

I enjoy reading much of the technical material here as well as tips and
techniques.  But I'm much more interested in how people use these things to
express ideas and feelings or to show us something that moves us.

Bruce S.
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From: Stephen <cameras@jetlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Eric's site & the LUG Gestapo


>I personally find it very amusing  that so many people are upset about
>someone's  honest appraisal of Eric pics.   So what if Becker doesn't
>like the images ?   Becker is still  entitled to have that opinion and
>to be able to post that view without being lambasted for it.
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>ANYONE has the right to an opinion on photographs, and has the right to
>express that opinion on the net, or on the LUG.  The notion that one
>person's opinion on a photograph is someone better than someone else's
>is bullshit as far as I am concerned.  Either you like it or you don't,
>that's all there is to it.   Other factors like experience, awards, LUG
>contributions,  how well someone is liked, what your mother said,  or
>how it will be received by the defenders of Eric,  are all irrelevant
>when it comes down to "Do you like the picture or not?"
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>That the LUG Police want to verbally abuse and flame  anyone for posting
>a negative appraisal of  Eric's pics shows far more about the  Gestapo
>than it does about Eric's pics or someone who isn't particularly
>impressed by them.
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>What about the freedom of speech and the discussion of ideas?
>
>To avoid similar  problems in the future,   please post guidelines of
>what LUG members may or may not write or think.
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>Stephen Gandy
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