RE: [Leica] Photographer's block

["Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>]

Thanks Ted. Actually, I had thought of pulling out Bystander or City Stills
to try to get some food for thought. To be honest, I don't really relate
well to either book, as they seem to be New England and don't resemble
anything down here at the edge of civilization.

I'm glad to hear the advice of waiting a day. I was dreading going out with
this feeling, and just consumed about 10 minutes to Kiwi-waterproof my Domke
bag as a means of procrastinating.

I hope the 75-years Of Leica Photography is still around. I have never seen
it in Barnes and Noble or Borders. May be a bit too rich for the average
consumer. I'll try Amazon.com.

Thanks.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ted Grant
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:26 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photographer's block
>
>
> Jeffery Smith 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.  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.<<<<<<
>
> Hi Jeff,
> Don't feel bad, as some days it happens for any number of reasons, so it's
> best to let it go and look later, or tomorrow will be a better day. If you
> get all in a fuss over it, then you royally screw yourself mentally and
> visually.  Go read a book.
>
> Better still if you have a copy of "75 Years of Leica
> Photography" pull that
> out and quietly look through it, the next thing you'll find is your visual
> and imagination is pounding and you're out the door shooting great things.
> :-)
>
> It's an incredible motivational book of Leica photography with each
> photographer only allowed one photograph, so what you see is this
> incredible
> collection of various subjects by known and not so known photogs.
>
> Oh yeah ... look on page 280 for you know who. ;-)
>
> Just relax and the mood will come back. Or give yourself a self assignment
> for a subject to shoot.
> ted
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
>
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