Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photographer's block
From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:59:42 -0500

on 1/21/02 2:25 PM, Jeffery Smith at jsmith45@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I just spent the past 4 hours roaming around the area looking for something
> spongeworthy to shoot (for those of you in the UK, that just means
> "worthy"), but am coming up blank. Sometimes, when there is a "theme" to
> look for (like the current SP forum of "hair"), it makes it easier to focus
> one's attention. I've never gone out and come back empty-handed.
> 
> What do y'all do when that happens? In the past, I could just set out with
> nowhere as a destination. Didn't work today.

I walk around looking for characters from the Gary Larsen strip "The Far
Side." Since none of those people actually exist in real life I end up
shooting whatever I see. The idea is to "keep pressing that shutter button,
it'll come unstuck*"

Gilbert

*credit Kyle if you must

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