Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As usual, good advice from Ted. I too have days when I am simply not motivated to take pictures. I think it is normal. I rarely go out specifically to photograph; instead, I always carry a camera with me wherever I go, whether it is my Domke bag with the M6 outfit or just the Rollei 35 in my pocket. Many if not most of my PAWs came about as a result of this. Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html