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Subject: [Leica] Out of Ideas : "Mastery" by George Leonard
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Fri Jun 24 15:21:21 2005
References: <BEE1A3DA.1EE6%bdcolen@comcast.net>

IMHO if you try to analyze your motives you end up doing nothing.
best,simon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Out of Ideas : "Mastery" by George Leonard


> How about asking yourself why you're photographing in the first place?
> 
> 
> On 6/24/05 11:42 AM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>  From what I read you've shot everything except macro, take a look at
>> the world of the small for a change - get in close.
>> Maybe you could take a crack at infrared too.
>> Astrophotography of any interest?
>> Douglas
>> 
>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've run into a dry spell where I'm just about out of photo ideas.
>>>>> I't seems like I've photographed every barn, cow, bird, bridge,
>>>>> landscape, sunrise and sunset within a 30 mile radius of my home base
>>>>> here in central Ohio (about 3000 images).  I've also run dry at our
>>>>> vacation home on Lake Erie (about 1000 images).  In recent
>>>>> correspondence with my brother in Maryland, he is also in the same
>>>>> photo slump.  I don't really like shooting people, other than family
>>>>> snaps, so street photography holds no appeal.  Travel does refresh
>>>>> me, but  opportunities to do so are currently limited.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any ideas how to break this slump?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rob McClure
>>>>> Upper Sandusky, OH
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> matt@kollarfoto.com | kollarfoto.com
>>> 
>>> 319.266.1143 | 319.240.1973 (mobile)
>>> cedar falls, iowa ~ usa
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There is a crack in everything
>>> That's how the light gets in..."
>>>     Leonard Cohen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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