Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ROFLOL!!!!:-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Feliciano di Giorgio Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:57 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Alfie's January 26th PAW...BD > >If I have any complaints about the PAW it is summed up in this extraction > >from B.D.'s post to Alfie regarding his post for the week. > > > >First of all, Alfie can post whatever the hell he wants. And who is B.D. to > >say Alfie didn't give a heck of a lot of thought to this image even before > >he posted it? Who made B.D. the judge-god-almighty of what should and > >shouldn't get posted to a PAW? > > > >B.D. goes further in his mean-spirited (I can't help but think he thought it > >might be interpreted as mean spirited since he writes << I don't want to be > >mean - honest - >>) letter to say Alfie is shooting like a child with > >his/her first camera in that Alfie is shooting everything in sight. So the > >hell what????? How do you think a person is supposed to learn? I'm more than > >certain that HCB, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans and all the others didn't start > >out shooting masterpieces when they first pulled their cameras out of the > >box. Photography is art and becoming good at it takes time...and practice. > >Why in the world would a fellow photographer begrudge another the right to > >shoot (and POST) whatever in the world he/she wants. > > > >I am appalled. > >Lea "Who's John Galt?" feli - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html