Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/05

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Subject: [Leica] photo a month? don't _make_ me come get you.
From: SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)
Date: Sun Dec 5 18:16:24 2004

Indeed.  I had to go buy another Leica M6 because I did not have enough 
cameras to take all the pictures that are out there.  

I post like 2 % of the stuff I shoot, I am a brutal editor of my own stuff. 

 I shot pictures of flowers and posted it. The editor of a regional magazine 
googled "Spider Lilies" and found my picture.  He bought it.  The he gave me 
an assignment.  Then He gave me another assignment. Then I got the cover of 
his 
magazine.  Then I got another assignment.  Then I got another cover. Two 
covers in a year from a major regional quarterly; 50% of their covers.

"Aw it is too much trouble to push that little button and take pictures."  
Hey, the second Leica was free to me, because I used money from the last 
assignment to buy it.


Regards, 
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
?galit?, libert?, crawfish




In a message dated 12/5/2004 7:36:43 PM Central Standard Time, 
KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu writes:
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:16:05 +0000 
From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> 

>Somebody submitted a suggestion for PAMs rather than PAWs - at this >time
of year that feels a lot more practical ;-) Peter 

i will come and confiscate your leicas and donate them to school children.
this goes for all of you (are you listening?) you have a freaking $1300
camera. go take some @#$@#$ pictures! 

as i have told y'all before, (perhaps not in so many words) when Vanity Fair
or Harpers or Newsweek or whomever tells a photographer "I want some
exciting pictures of people folding laundry" gosh darn it, they _get_
exciting pictures of people folding laundry. because life around you at any
given moment seems dull is no excuse for not taking an interesting and
inspiring photograph. if you're GOOD you find the photo. and if you're NOT
good you need to get better (so go look for the photo). and if you're NEVER
going to be good, you need to swap that leica to someone for a set of stereo
speakers or a used volkswagon or a playstation 2 or something.

there you have it.

show me some pictures, people. show me some good pictures.

kc


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