Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Holy memory
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:18:39 -0700

Eric New by is better known as one of the finest travel writers around. I
have a copy of that book as well, and it's a gem. I think his photography is
just as informed as his writing. What's that quote by Yogi Berra? "You can
observe a lot by just looking!"

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike
Johnston
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:18 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Holy memory

And I just dippped into my library and came across a wonderful book by a
photographer I don't know very much about, name of Eric Newby (maybe an
English Lugger can tell me more about him). The book is called _What the
Traveller Saw_. And it's an absolutely wonderful book, full of great
pictures. Most taken with an old Pentax and a budget 50mm lens. But taken by
a good PHOTOGRAPHER.

If you can't take a good picture with a bad lens, you can't take a good
picture with a good lens. The art is in using the tools artfully, not in the
tools themselves.

- --Mike