Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Before my daughter started her marine biology PhD she interviewed with the BBC to be a scientific researcher for these series. The salary was zero, it was considered that a) the BBC did not have any money, b) it was such a prestigious job that there were plenty of people prepared to work for nothing... She found something else. FD On 8 Dec, 2009, at 03:18, Doug Herr wrote: > Larry Zeitlin wrote: > >>>> > 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. > <<< > > If it's any consolation the Planet Earth movies are made with much bigger > budgets and crews than most individuals can muster: guides, scouting, > travel budgets and support services all help. What gets me down is > shoveling horse manure and fixing horse fencing (for the 20th time) when > the light is perfect. It's not friday but the horses are for sale. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information