Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Where I live, how I live
From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:42:36 +0100
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Hi Rob,
Thanks for checking out my pics. It's tempting to say I was in pursuit of
bland and to claim that I successfully achieved my goal but I can't imagine
anyone deliberately setting bland as a standard to attain. Not in my
understanding of the word bland anyway. I know from your photographs and
posts to the LUG that you are a person who obviously knows what you are
talking about. To be found bland by someone I respect is obviously
disappointing for me but I do not know how to inject the ingredients that
you find lacking. The difference between professional and amateur I guess.
I'll keep trying and thanks for looking.
- --Graham

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: 28 August 2002 09:52
Subject: Re: [Leica] Where I live, how I live


> Hi Graham, I've just been looking over your landscapes. Very nice
> photographs. But... ;-) I sense a lack - a lack of mood or intention.
> Usually I'm not very for the photographer intruding into the picture too
> much, but I think landscape is a genre which does require the photographer
> to make a statement about the countryside (in this case). I wonder whether
> this is a choice on your part, to present these pictures (which are
> compositionally very well realised) so blandly?
> R.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com>
> To: "LUG" <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:07 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Where I live, how I live
>
>
> > Without the LUG fuelled drive to get the next photograph I would not
have
> > purchased 'Village Walks in Northamptonshire' and most of the places on
my
> > site would have remained unknown to me. So the Lug in encouraging me to
> > shoot PAWs where I live has inadvertently changed how I live. That will
be
> > viewed by some as a saccharine comment but true nonetheless.
> >
> > http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/gal4_10.html
> >
> > Graham
> > http://geebeephoto.com
> >
> >
> >
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