Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just what the LUG needs. Venom overspill from another site. Send him one of your cards Dave :>D Graham http://geebeephoto.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "DUNCAN" <0709433420@euromail.se> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: 15 February 2002 22:21 Subject: [Leica] Why I photograph - a valentine- > Lovely rhetoric Mark, > but www.leica-gallery.net was set up for the members of > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUGers . If you can't even be bothered to post > the link to our group then I personally can't be bothered to have you as one > of our members. I've already written to you and explained exactly how it > works. What part of that one sentence explanation didn't you understand? > > -Duncan > > We make a living by what we get, > we make a life by what we give. > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUGers > > > > > Yesterday I made a valentine for my wife, using the picture > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/markdavison/image-24669.html > > and a short poem: > > Rooms > > There are rooms where the light falls > and lingers like the memory of a caress. > There are rooms where passion flares, > is savoured, and not forgotten. > There are rooms where love enters, > and never leaves, haunting the smallest crevice with sweetness. > Let us live out our lives in these rooms. > > > It is not an award-winning photograph, suffused as it is with flare, even > with Solms best 35mm lens. My eighth grade English teacher would probably > blanch at the poem. But the two together convey a sentiment much more > strongly than any Hallmark card I could buy. > > So for me the question is not, how do I become and award winning artist or > photo-journalist? The question is, how can I use art and technique to make > my own personal communications powerful, honest, true, sometimes near > beautiful? In short, can I use the camera to make my own art, and not be > forever at the mercy of general purpose images shot by someone else. > > Sometimes a message is no less important because it has an audience of one. > > I think we should stop belittling people who just want to take better > pictures of their family joys and sorrows, for their family. What higher > purpose could a camera, and a democratic art form, really serve? > > Happy valentine's day a day late. > > Mark Davison > > > -- > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html