Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alfie, I agree with Jeff below. Further I suggest you take down all the PAW images that you have posted for months to come. Then start over again, one image at a time... ...while carefully considering Jeff's comments. Steve > My suggestions to Alfie: > > The PAW is a Photo-A-Week. Suggestions made here this week won't improve > next week's PAW because you've already posted your PAWs for weeks up to > March, 2002. > > Don't tell us what we are supposed to be thinking or seeing when we are > looking at your images. If something is ironic, we'll understand that. If > something seems surrealistic, hopefully we'll see that too. If you have to > tell us what we are thinking when we look at your images, it's a bit like a > mime saying out loud "now I'm trapped in a box, now I'm pulling a piece of > rope" etc. When people post humorous pictures, none of them say "you are > supposed to laugh when you see this". > > Keep in mind that having a Leica does not substitute for good technique. > Everyone has to start at the bottom and work their way up. I didn't own a > Leica until I was 51 years old. > > If you don't think something is worthy of posting for the entire world to > see, go back out and shoot more images. I didn't let anyone see my first 100 > rolls of images because I wasn't good enough at that point to be displaying > things publically. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html