Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny Carter wrote: >>> The picture of the week project mostly documenting my little part of > the earth has become an important part of my life, and I do it for me.<<<<< And Sonny I can't think of any better reason to do them than that! Sure there's good bad and ugly stuff and some that shouldn't have been exposed in the first place, but what the heck eh, how else are we supposed to learn if we don't take pictures and get good, bad or ugly criticism and helpful suggestion how to improve as photographers. Hell when I started in '50 no one told me anything unless you belonged to a camera club and even then comments were pretty few and far between.... too many protecting their little miniscule world of knowledge. Pros were worse as they all wanted to protect their customers even from the lowliest amateur. It was shoot tons of film, at least 20 rolls a week. That may not sound like a much these days, however the salary was pretty slim pickin's per week so it was a ton of film even at $1.25 a roll! ;-) And the bulk of that was thrown away as it didn't look like the assignment in the photo magazine project. The mags were good in those days a they were "teachers of photography" compared to the advertising and opinionated rags of today. So Sonny keep your pictures coming! ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html