Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, That's like me telling you that taking pictures of birds rarely works out. They're far off and move all the time and many of them are quite small and easily spooked and their feathers change colors in the light and their eyes are like shining pieces of mica. So forget it. And water fowl: particularly those. You're like, well, no. It's hard, certainly, but not impossible and certainy not without pleasure in the challenges. Humor works fine in print. It requires the writer to be humorous and the reader to be receptively speaking humorous too. We can argue this in terms of which of us was tinnier of ear but I think the reference to Luis' thank you notes is manifestly innocent of the charges leveled against it whether you find it humorous or not. Saying well if I had 81 Luis must have that many too is disparaging of Luis' work exactly how? I think Geoff was out for a Sunday drive in Mr. Magoo mode on that one. I'm actually pleased with the last paragraph of that letter, cf, Banquo. You know, in terms of humor. Not that Shakespeare didn't write some some of the best street plays in the business. Vince On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > Vince Passaro wrote: > > >Your sense of humor and mine are not in sync alas. > > Vince, I have found that humor rarely works as well as intended when > expressed with the typed word (vs. face-to-face, with the spoken word). > Typing has no vocal inflections or facial expressions that would clue the > intended audience into the real meaning of the words. Unless one is as > gifted as Samuel Clemens was, typed humor often comes across rather poorly. > In my case it was like trying to dance with two left feet (no offense to > the left-footed among us). > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >