Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:08 PM -0800 1/19/02, Marc Attinasi wrote: >I hope Eric keeps posting pictures of his daughter. I take at least >50 pictures of my daughter a week, and when my new daughter is born, >Wednesday at 2:00pm, I will be taking hundreds and probably even >foisting a few upon the list. Very many of Eric's shots are great, >and they make me smile - what could be better? > >BUT, I must state my difference of opinion with Sonny about the >merits of landscape shots. Photographs are many things - documents, >reflections of reality, distortions of reality, contemplative >pieces, humorous pieces, political statements, enigmatic pieces... >People are very complex and provide a lot of opportunities, but >environmental pieces - landscapes, abstracts and the like - give us >a chance for some inner calm, some quiet reflection, a meditative >reprieve. > >I'm thinking of the shot Sonny had of the flag reflection in the >water - with and without the ducks - it had no people in it and it >was wonderful (http://www.sonc.com/flag_dux.htm). > >Picture people do require special effort, and so do good pictures >that have no people! > >OK, back to the darkroom now. I shoot as many pictures of my daughter as she will let me. For about 15 years she didn't let me, and I miss those years. But I can do it again, and I do. I even have a 'Ted Grant' shot of my daughter! :-) - -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html