Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/26

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Subject: [Leica] Quote for the day
From: Disfromage@aol.com
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:49:29 EST

Hi All,

Today's New York Times Book Review has a review of a book by Robert Hughes, 
who is the art critic for Time Magazine.  It is ostensibly about fishing and 
is titled "A Jerk On One End".  I think it's worth buying just for the title. 
 The review contains a quote I would like to share that applies to not only 
to fishing, but I think photography (and many other things) as well.  It 
reads: "It is easy to look, but learning to see is a more gradual business, 
and it sneaks up on you unconsciously, by stealth.  The sign that it is 
happening is the fact that you are not bored by the absence of the 
spectacular."

Now it's back to the darkroom where I'm printing several rolls of Leica 
negatives, mainly shot with a 35mm Summilux asph I got recently.  What a lens!

Richard Wasserman