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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why I photograph - a valentine-
From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:09:24 -0000
References: <LPBBLCPOCNLJJMEHMHILMECBCPAA.0709433420@euromail.se>

Just what the LUG needs. Venom overspill from another site. Send him one of
your cards Dave :>D

Graham
http://geebeephoto.com



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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
>
>
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