Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > I do. I don't find se?orita offensive when Lluis describes a photo of a > young lady. I think it might be more offensive (to the person herself) to > call a se?orita a "se?ora". But I see Steve's point. The two daughters of > our Director of Planning enrolled in one of my lectures (they are of Cuban > ancestry), and even though I eat lunch with him, I would never refer to > either of his daughters as a se?orita. It would seem to be referring to > them as objects. I take your point Jeffery. Though you're referring to people you know by name in that anecdote. In the case of these LUG subject postings or image titles we don't know the names of these subjects in these street photographs. - which may speak more to the point of why we're photographing strangers - men or women? Yet we do. And as men we appreciate the beauty of women. And as sexual beings we appreciate the beauty of healthy young people - whether men or women. Are we do deny this appreciation when respectfully presented in word or image? That's just silly and denying reality. I feel no shame in appreciating beauty in nature; whether a woman, a man, a flower, a bird, a landscape, or any other flora or fauna on earth. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist