Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Street Photography debate
From: "Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:09:07 -0500

What's Sturgeon's law?

Jonathan Lee

- -----Original Message-----
From: David Morton [mailto:dmorton@journalist.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:32 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Street Photography debate


Jem Kime wrote:

>A president in a photo club said to me a few years back, 'But why else 
>would people enter the exhibition/competition unless they wanted to win the

>trophies?' My feelings are that photographers take pictures for any number 
>of reasons.

Indeed. Pre WWW club competitions were the easiest - perhaps the only - way
of showing images to an audience wider than family and friends for many
people.

Now we have the web, and everyone's a publisher *and* a critic. Sturgeon's
law still applies, of course, but it's nice to think that as more and more
'non computerists' get on the 'net and the web, there will be some really
exciting discoveries.

One day I'll finish my web site of snaps...one day...

David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk