Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><<Alfie, you have to give much, much more thought to what you shoot - at >least >you do if you are planning to post the images>> > >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 > Boy have you taken BD the wrong way here :-( - -- Alastair Firkin http://www.afirkin.com The Family of Man 2 Exhibit for Year one is now showing: http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/FOM2%20Folder/YearOneExhibit/YearOne.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html