[Leica] PAW Week 1

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> It takes courage to put your work before an international audience  
> of other
> Leica photographers, and I commend you for getting to it.
>
> My experience and my wonderful Leica gear was being wasted before,  
> and I was
> plinking about, pulling out the camera every once in a while.
>
> When I read the Kyle Cassidy rhetorical question, "Do I deserve this
> camera?," I had to find out for myself if I deserve this camera.
>
> That was in the Spring of 2001.  Since then, with encouragement and
> attaboys, and sometimes a ruler on the fingers, I have seen and felt a
> marked improvement in my ability to see, and show others what I see.
>
> Guess what?   It's no longer a chore.  I don't really do a  
> disciplined every
> Monday posting anymore, but I do shoot and post regularly.  Every  
> once in a
> while I go tidy up my pages so I  can look back and find my shots.
>
> Several years ago, I started posting Friday Flowers.  I had done an
> assignment for Louisiana Life Magazine on Hodges Gardens and one of  
> the
> listers did a Friday Follies at that time.   So I posted Friday  
> Flowers to
> this list and another.  When my stats showed I had gotten hundreds  
> of views
> in one day, I knew I was on to something.
>
> Last week's flower garnered nearly seven hundred views, and the week  
> is not
> out yet.   By the way, the above-mentioned magazine assignment came  
> about
> after the editor googled "Spider Lily," and came up with one of my PAW
> pictures.  This one:
> http://www.sonc.com/lily.htm

Welcome, enjoy, participate....Sonny says it best...

I have had a half dozen images found, selected, published in the same  
way Sonny describes, including two covers...

one, a medical book,
the other,  out soon,  on the cover of a book of poetry...

:-)

Steve


>
>
> Another tip, keep a camera with you always.  It's terribly difficult  
> to take
> a picture without one, and when great pictures jump out in front of  
> you,
> you're ready.
>
> You'll know you are at the right place when you check to see if you  
> have the
> camera before you check to see if you have your keys and wallet.
>
> Good Luck, and welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> USA
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Michael Gardner  
> <mlgardner96@mac.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's what I'm counting on. I need to get re-motivated.  The  
>> first
>> step was heeding Ted's a$$ chewing and sending a couple of snaps  
>> for the
>> yearbook.  Now I need to keep the momentum going.
>>
>
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