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Subject: [Leica] Out of Ideas
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri Jun 24 23:14:03 2005
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Rob,

If you cannot travel, and you do not like street photography, then I 
guess it's back to the cows and barns...but with infrared film! Summer 
is upon us, so I am sure you will have lots of good IR weather--the nice 
thing about IR is that the kind of weather that is lousy for normal 
photography--bright sunshine--is just the ticket for infrared.

Also, I would suggest that you reconsider your aversion to people. 
Street photography does not have to be of the "in-your-face" variety 
like B.D.'s pictures from the commuter trains or Johnny Deadman's Oxford 
Street pictures of a few years ago. Not everyone can do that, it takes a 
special talent and psyche. But if you look at my Lisbon pictures, for 
example:
http://www.leica-gallery.net/wajsman/folder-3375.html
then you will notice that while many of them have people in it, the 
people are often at a distance and really just serve as an additional 
design element in an urban landscape. I for one would like to see what 
Upper Sandusky, OH, looks like.

Good luck!

Nathan

Rob McClure wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

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