[Leica] Why I called mr hajj a moron ...

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

walt sed:

>I really don't see it that way. I have the greatest respect for Kyle
and 
>his images but thought he might have been too quick to condemn. You 
>know, the old "mile in my dockers" kinda thing? If it seemed ill- 
>advised on my part then perhaps he will accept an apology? Maybe even 
>turn the other cheek and let me wonder why he referred to Hajj as a 
>moron? Maybe we all need to sit back, take a stress pill and relax? 

i do not doubt mr hajj's courage. only his photoshop skillz which are
---
Childish -- at best. Any one of us could have shopped it better in 2
minutes (which
Is what I did). I doubt his mental capacity because he took such a ham
handed image and actually handed it in to his photo editor. He might as 
Well have handed the guy a bananna.

And as for how difficult it is to photograph people with unloaded guns,
Let me tell you about lousiana. In lousiana, everybody has a gun. And as
you go door-to-door photographing them, "southern hospitality" requires
that
They offer you burbon and ice. After five or six portraits one of your
eyeballs is pointed in one direction and the other is bouncing up and
down
like a dribbled basketball. In this state it's very easy to become
injured
tripping over a curb or getting tangled in your own flash cord.

I was in every bit as much peril as mr. hajj was from the roof of the
Palestine hotel.