Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Traveling the world, just me and my camera
From: Aaron Sandler <aaron.sandler@duke.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:16:03 -0500
References: <4043E7C4.7000804@fusionary.com>

It's the brain part that I'm missing.

At 10:29 PM 3/1/2004, Doug Herrwrote:
>on 3/1/04 5:47 PM, Jack Baty at jbaty@fusionary.com wrote:
>
> >>>>>> That man travels the world with just an M6 and a 35mm lens.<<<<<<
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> There are too many people who think all you need is a Leica, film, running
> >> shoes and a foreign country and you'll become the next HCB or Marc Riboud,
> >> and that's absolute nonsense.
> >
> > While I agree completely, I wonder if the point of the original post was
> > that it's *not* about the equipment. I read it as, "He takes great
> > photos with a single camera and only one lens!"
> >
> > FWIW, I use an M6 and 35 and my photos are crap. Maybe it's the
> > traveling the world part I'm missing!
>
>I hate to break this to you, but it's not the 'traveling the world' part,
>either.  IMHO the best photos are in your 'back yard', however you define
>that.  It's the places you know and can come back to again and again.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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