Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, Sure, I wasn't saying you were trying to convince me, just that they're really good photos, but the location and photos are good without saying anything remarkable about the camera. Matry On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Marty, > I was just surprised at the results - it was not posted to persuade any of > you to buy a Nikon V1! (-: > I think Myanmar is well worth a visit. Later this year, perhaps. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for the link, Jayanand. Interesting. Although I must confess I >> take some issue with his statement that "since the country is going to >> change in the coming years, visit now". I don't see how a change for the >> better would make the country less deserving of a visit. Unless he means >> that a change from the current dictatorship to democracy will be a change >> for the worse? >> >> I've been to Myanmar. ?The loss of cultural identities (I use the >> plural because there are hundreds of identifiably separate ethnic >> groups in the country) in Myanmar has already started with increased >> external influence. ?It will be accelerated greatly by further opening >> up. ?Irrespective of the motives or causes behind it, the more closed >> a country is the less they are open to cultural homogenisation. >> Myanmar is an amazing place, and even if the west doesn't like its >> current politics/government, that the country has retained the >> authenticity of their cultures is something to admire in my opinion. >> Bhutan has also done it, although in a way that most outsiders find >> more acceptable, although they have their problems too. ?This all >> might be driven, however, by a personal moral difficulty that I have, >> having been born in and continuing to live in, and benefit from, a >> country founded on the principle of terra nullius and claimed by >> ongoing genocide, that I feel morally compromised by judging how any >> other country is run, irrespective of whether it is a way I agree with >> or not. ?I prefer to try to help to fix things here before I judge how >> others act and work. ?These are questions that rarely arise in >> socio-political debates, and are even more rarely addressed. >> >> The photos are nice, but they could have been taken with any camera, >> and won't make me run to buy a V1. >> >> Marty >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information