Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, For once I have to take issue with something you have written, to wit: > The truth is, if you don't have a theme you don't concentrate, nor do you find > anything, well OK rarely something that is truly magical. By the way, this > rarely happens in your home town, no matter where that is in the world do you > find something right away . A home town is the worst place to have to shoot, > you've seen it, been there a dozen times, everything looks the same and it all > becomes bbbbbbbboooooorrrrrrriiiiiingggg! My own experience is exactly the opposite. When I look at the photos I have taken in the past 15 years, I almost invariably find that the best ones all are from the place I lived at the time, or at least a place close enough that I was able to return to it again and again. My travel pictures, on the other hand, are ho-hum: nice record shots, well exposed and all that, but really nothing special. I really believe that in order to take good pictures of a place, you have to be intimate with the environment. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/