Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle offered: > -- and these people ended up coming out in droves to get photographed. > but what I'm having the most difficult time getting are people who own > guns but either don't like them, don't want them, or don't care about > them.<<<< Kyle, This is more of a psychological thing. It's easy to write about, but what is there visual? That's the problem. Much like a project I tried during a winter many years ago....... It was to illustrate the psychological frustration of driving in a big city during or after a snow storm. My initial thought was... "this'll be a piece of cake with all the crazy winter drivers we have around here!" Heck I even got a grant for it. Yep the grand sum of $1500.00 from the Canada Council. Like WOW! I was out in every damn snow storm day and night trying to shoot something depicting the driver's frustration. NADA! The only thing it got me was an $1800. repair bill for overhauls due to melting snow leaking into the camera bodies. :-( Now here's the similarities to your gun folks and my drivers. It's a brain thing. They may or may not like the gun or other negatives about guns, but as with the drivers they hated driving and sliding in their minds..... but how do you show that as a picture? Sure a car sliding is one thing, but that isn't illustrating "the driver's face or what's going on in his/her mind." The guy hating a gun, yet has it handy so to speak but doesn't want his picture taken with it in any fashion...... What does he do to "illustrate his feelings?" "Stand in the living room with no gun?" That doesn't work either. I think your best bet is leave the non liking gun folks alone even though they have one and press on with only those who'll cooperate with their armoury of weapons whatever it might be. That is, unless you intend on writing a pile of words. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 Canada 250-477-2156 tedgrantphoto.com