Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] going beyond family photography
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:19:56 -0500 (EST)

keep doing what you are doing.  photograph your world.
and if your baby is your world, what's holding you back?

- -rei


> From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
> 
> I don't understand why serious photography cannot include subjects who are
> related to us, though.
> 
> The very last thing I want to do is bore my fellow luggers with mundane,
> run-of-the-mill baby pictures.  "Oh no.  Here comes Eric.  He's going to
> pull out his wallet and have an accordian-style barrage of photos flip-flop
> out of his wallet, and then he's going to want to show us his daughter's
> first drool.  And first stool, even!"
> 
> How do I grow as a photographer so that what I'm showing isn't family
> pictures but "real serious" photography that coincidentally has a baby girl
> as the subject?
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