Re: [Leica] should interaction be restricted to shop talk?

[ned@kajabbi.com]

Your world will become so much richer by the improvement in the power of
observation. Always remember to trip the shutter.
Ned
www.kajabbi.com,




>-- Original Message --
>From: "Karina Klaas" <shutterbug@iinet.net.au>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] should interaction be restricted to shop talk?
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:41:52 +1100
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>
>
> G'Day From Down Under,
>
>As a newcomber to this "family" I have, at a distance, read with
>interest,the communication between all on LUG.
>
>Much comment has been made about whether the LUG should be entering into
>online debates - ie. are the Luggers losing the plot?
>
>I have not yet "earned my stripes" but for what it is worth I think that
>all
>interaction is healthy...I have yet to meet a great "brain dead"
>photographer.
>
>To quote a line from John Lennon - "Life is what happens to you while you're
>busy making other plans" - this is the closest closest analogy I can find
>when it come to photography - everything we say, and everything we do is
>ultimately expressed in our work as photographers.
>
>I do not fail to appreciate paradoxes in the the online reasoning I have
>read..some of you are batting for the same team but wearing different
>colours - it seems the arguments are coming down to "which colour is right"
>ie. the last say.
>
>Debate is healthy and I do not believe it should be discouraged fron LUG,
>what should be discouraged is the way in which the debate becomes so
>personal.......if you are not likely to become that intimate with a stranger
>sitting next to you on a bus what gives you a licence to tear another
>stranger to shreds online?
>
>As a result of my passion for photography, the intensity of my observation
>has become so powerful that the the downside of not being succeeding as
a
>"professional photographer", is for me,  at least offset by all the other
>joys it brings, and they are numerous.
>
>Photography has not taught me about taking pictures/making images - it
has
>"shown" me life - for example - you do not have to see the snake to work
>out
>where it is - just watch the tall grass move on a hot summers day.
>
>So, I advocate a continuation of online debate but I encourage a forum
which
>promotes respect for one another.
>
>Picture this, (pun unintended) a future generation (our kids) blaming it
>all
>on Leica.
>
>Karina
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