Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<my longest ever was <the long end of a 80-200 n*kk*r I humbly ask to anybody in the list why one cannot spell completely the name of the gear who owns or have owned? Is it a non wrote rule? Another more complicated question: Does improve the ability to create ART to have or to have not some special brand equipment? I mind the ability not the possibility (I cannot shoot properly birds if I haven't got a tele). Another even more complicated question : isn't it possible to take beautiful pictures not in b&w? I know many of the ancient great authors, and many members of the list, worked in b&w but some more modern do in color; just a remembrance for Ernst Haas for example...To do mainly pictures in b&w "looks" like good pictures but not always they are...Of course b&w is (HCB, Sieff and Salgao) a reduction to the essence; voluntarily extract from life the sign, the form of a thing or a person, but if I am not an artist (and surely I'm not) a pic in b&n becomes very often a vulgarity or a banality in b&w. Just some thoughts. I do believe that it is the intention which makes a big picture; if some image transmit some emotion or some idea or has some kind of message not merely a formal beauty it is near of some kind of beauty. Just some thoughts to meditate about and without any wish of any controversy. Just in a constructive way mainly because even myself I'm not at all sure to be certain about it. Kind regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html