Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Latest Photojournalism Blog
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sat Aug 16 18:55:49 2008

----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison McClary <lists@mcclary.net>

Bill,

I just read the "Shotgun" post :

http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/bill_clough

and all I can say is AMEN!!!  You hit the 
nail squarely on the head and wrote it extremely well.  You describe so 
well what I think is one of the major problems with young shooters these 
days, no thinking, just machine gun evereything and pray the moment is 
there somewhere amid the rubble.

Great blog and great witting!  Keep up the great work.
................................................................................................................
I agree. 

Something I did for fun once would seem to be a good idea for photography 
classes - going out and 
taking only one picture.  My father once bought a camera at a rummage sale 
for me.  I like using all
the cameras in my collection, but this was an Ansco folder that took 
something like 3-1/2" x 5-1/2"
negatives on discontinued large roll film, so I cut down some Kodak Ortho 
Fine Grain Positive film
and loaded one sheet in the film plane.  I went to the most picturesque 
local cemetery, looked
around for a while, and decided on my one shot.  After exposing it, I went 
back to my darkroom and
processed it.  This is the one and only picture I ever took with that camera:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Cemetery_AMR.jpg.html>

Before we got the EOS system in '92, I hardly ever got to use a motor drive, 
so I continue to use the
single-shot setting even with digital.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu
Department Phone: 414 229-4282
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/