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Subject: [Leica] BLUR - My last words.
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:03:03 -0700
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Well said!

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Aug 14, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:39 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
> mac.com>wrote:
> 
>> I think you vastly underestimate the depth of knowledge, training and
>> experience on this list. For example: I'd guess that Doug Herr spends at
>> least a hundred hours of "observation" for every minute of looking through
>> a viewfinder.
>> 
> 
> 
> ?I agree. No one "taught" me to be a news photographer, I did not get
> training to photograph flowers; though I've led a few classes in
> photography, I've never taken one.
> 
> Mostly, I look.  I don't always share what I see either.  When I do, I call
> it photography.
> 
> Johnny Deadman (once on this list) called photography a "higher form of
> pointing."  I'll buy that.?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
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> 
> USA
> 
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