Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 5/18/00 2:12:28 PM, deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk writes: >Maybe you could expand on that, Bob. I'm interested because I do think >a lot >of street photographers are afraid of people... which is why they do it. >As >for the sloppy seeing, well some are sloppy, some aren't. Sloppy isn't >necessarily bad anyway. But go on, go on. Before I went to work for newspapers I used to want to sneak photos -- Yes, I too, wanted to be a street photographer -- but, speaking for myself only, I soon realized that the reason I wanted to catch that fleeting moment ala HCB was because I didn't want to have to walk up to that person and talk to them. I assume that if others felt that way then others do too. Bob (will talk to anybody) McEowen