[Leica] conclusions

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

><Snip> Try to develop your own view - be
> > your own - ruthless - judge, regardless of whether someone else likes it or
> > not. FREE yourself! Get rid of all that has been done before! There are no
> > damn
> > rules in photography.
> 
> I didn't say I'd copy it, I said I'd think twice about photographing it the
> way I did before. Very different things. Very different. Not to reevaluate
> your own vision in the light of others is the quickest way to a blind alley.
> --
> John Brownlow

I've vainly spent my life trying to rip off a variety of photographers but as I
do not seem to have to talent to successfully do that no one accuses me of
plagiarism. My shots seem to get caught between two photographers.
In screenwriting the "-meets-" technique is in effect. Instead of
Citizen Kane meets Five easy pieces
	we get
Newton meets Koudelka
Avedon meets Wegee
Godless abominations perhaps but it catches you eye and passes for originality
I think originality ain't what it's cracked up to be. Originality has been done.