Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To be fair, IMHO Richard Gere is a pretty good photographer. I like Leonard Nimoy's new book too. But I agree, there are too many celebrity photographers. Tipper Gore, anybody? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Bryan Adams / Ansel Adams > > Tim Atherton wrote: > > > He reminds me of Roberta Bondar - "I've been to space on a rocket. Now, > give > > me a Hassleblad and a 1/2 million dollars and I'll take a book full of > > mediocre landscape photographs to promote Canadian unity..." yeah, > right.<<<< > > For the uninformed: Roberta Bondar......... > > Roberta Bondar is one of Canada's astronaughts who received a 1/2 million > dollars to shoot a book of landscapes only because she was an astronaught as > it sure as hell had nothing to do with her so called ability as a > photographer! > > I never can understand why "personalities" get the money they do to produce > mediocre crap only because they're so called personalities. Yep she's an > astronaught, Bryan Adman's is a guitar plucker of some ability, but these > people are personalities in their own filed and it would be great if they > just stayed where they do very well. > > Imagine if I were an extremely talented photographer do you think because of > that I can get a half million to go on a space craft to the moon? Or given > a guitar to play ? > ted > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html