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Subject: [Leica] Time Photos of the Year
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:04:14 -0600
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As a Time subscriber, I agree with you, Ric.  It takes both to get the full 
story told, and some of Time's presentations are very good.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Time Photos of the Year


> and, if a writer needs a photo with his piece, he's failed to tell the 
> story?
>
> This is something we get a little carried away with here from time to 
> time.
>
> If this were true, we'd not need writing. Time Magazine could thin up and 
> go with a single photo per page. (Would they need headlines?)
>
> A picture that carries its story is wonderful, but one that carries the 
> whole story is (so far as I know) non-existent.
>
> Our world is full of wonderful, beautiful, successful photographs that are 
> improved by a caption and occasionally full-fledged, long-form writing.
>
> ric
>
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Marty Deveney wrote:
>
>>  If you need to add words, you've
>> failed.
>
>
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