Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Eric's site & the LUG Gestapo
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 16:13:13 -0700

Is there a website showing winning photos?

At 05:08 PM 4/9/98 -0500, Eric Welch wrote:
>At 08:47 AM 4/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>My philosophical question is, artistically, what is GOOD photography?
>>A 6 year old with a P&S could just as easily win a prize as an old, bitter
>>photographer who has been perfecting his craft for 50 years.  So who is
>>"better?"
>
>Considering the picture of Yeltsin dancing won a Pulitzer proves this to be
>true. As a matter of fact, several amateurs have won the Pulitzer. But
>that's because it's not judged for photographic quality, but for "being
>there" when something happened.
>
>Pictures of the Year, or World Press Photo are much better judges of who is
>good as the years pass.
>==========
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...
> 


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