Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] NC State Fair AND A NEW BEGINNING!
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed Oct 26 04:21:53 2005
References: <BB5B7BF0-1C9C-4481-BCC2-B92537ED2939@mindspring.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20051025223405.1f9f4db0@imap.duke.edu> <002e01c5d9dd$9e68b830$1ae76c18@ted>

Ted--

Thanks for making me first?

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Ric old buddy there are only two shots here worth posting!!
>
> Sorry mate that's life in the realities of pictures that stop  
> people to really look.  All the rest are snapshots of no consequence!
>
> Sorry to sound so smack dab ornery, but other than the two, first  
> one reaction, a beauty! First class your re-action to the action.  
> The lady sitting at the side of the road with cigarette and coke  
> preparing for the cancer ward. Good capture of a life moment!
>
> The rest do absolutely nothing but are exposures.
>
> I bet you didn't think you'd get that kind of response. ;-)
>
> But that's life when one posts to the LUG from now on and I figure  
> it's about time we stopped kissing each others butts with the sweet  
> talk of... "oh I like that! Nice picture"  bull shit! When in real  
> life it makes one puke.
>
> So get ready folks the old grouch is coming down on you to start  
> improving your picture taking. Yes and I will tell you what you did  
> wrong or how to have improved it.
>
> Yep there's any number who are photo champions everytime they post!
>
> Then there's the others who post some incredibly poor stuff that  
> could've been a damn fine picture with a bit more thought or  
> understanding of how to use available light they're shooting with!   
> So be it, get yer butts ready it might be a rocky ride! Then agin  
> it might be as sweet as a piece of Mom's apple pie! ;-)
>
> You want to be better photographers? Well OK, lets get with it! If  
> yer good you get the praise, you post crap yer going to get worked  
> over! :-)
>
> Damn don't you love it when the old guy gets cranky? :-) Yeah OK  
> maybe my meds aren't working tonight, so tough! ;-) Live with it!  
> But by gosh yer sure going to learn from it! So there! :-)
>
> Don't forget, when you come back on this with any rebuttal, I'm a  
> senior citizen and I can have you arrested for threats! ;-)
>
> ted. :-)
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] NC State Fair)
Message from aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler) ([Leica] NC State Fair)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] NC State Fair AND A NEW BEGINNING!)