Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]rnkramer@mindspring.com wrote: > > I will say my main message with my photographs that I will be posting once a > week to this diverse group of Leica owners -- some wealthy, some not (the > reason I don't have a 35mm 'lux ain't becuase I don't want one) -- is to > quit argueing about whose lens can beat up whose lens and go out and USE > your cameras! For whatever type of photography you enjoy. With whatever > pieces of equipment you need and /or can afford. > Well said, Bob! Learning to see photo opportunities close to home is where it's at: It's a challenge to look out onto the everyday world with a tourist's sense of newness and wonder but it's very rewarding. There will never be another day quite like today, so best to grab the camera and capture a bit of it before it's gone forever! Don't worry about wearing out the Leica; it's not so easily done and they'll make more. For what it's worth, I do try to look at everyone's online photos and maybe don't give feedback as much as I should. I respond to some subject matter more than others and I'm critical but less-than-fawning praise from me does not imply that the photographer is a worthless hack! I get a lot more excited over Cole Weston's dye transfer prints of cow pastures than I do over Dorothea Lange's migrant mother photo but that's just me. - -- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado