Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] Inferiority complex
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:30:44 -0500

> 
> I'm really getting a photographic inferiority complex. A nasty cold (flu?) 
> has
> laid me out for the last couple of days. I've spent the time watching the
> nature shows on the Discovery channel on TV. Some of the nature movie 
> images
> on the Planet Earth series are far better than anything I have ever taken, 
> and
> to tell the truth, better than anything I've seen on the LUG with the 
> possible
> exception of  Doug Herr's birds and Jayanard's safari pictures. I don't 
> know
> how many thousands of hours of footage were culled to get the moments of
> images but the results are spectacular.
> 
> 
> Don't watch these shows unless you have a very strong ego. Of course this 
> is
> all irrelevant to street photographers. I guess I'll just have to look at
> football or soccer instead.
> 
> 
> Larry Z


Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero used to love those Nature shows.
But Donnie Brasco did him in.


Mark William Rabiner





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