Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photography and Prague
From: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:24:57 -0800

Bruce Feldman wrote:
> 
> Photographically, the main challenge in Prague seems like it will be trying
> to avoid the visual cliches -- cobblestone streets, gabled houses, oldtime
> streetlights and the like.  That's all been done before so many times by
> much better photographers than me. 

Bruce,
I once attended a seminar on stock photography by Tony Stone and he said
the way to make it big time in travel photography is to take pictures of
the way people imagine a place to be.  

Which maybe sums up advertising photography in general.

Reality isn't so enticing.

donal
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Donal Philby
San Diego
http://www.donalphilby.com