Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] Deep Philosophical Harangue (DPH) ,tears and the Holy Grail
From: "" <leica-user@ispwest.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:16:14 -0800

> leica-user@ispwest.com wrote:
> > I guess I am looking for  an 
> > elixir...maybe..Deep...Philosophic...Harangue (DPH) on a topic 
> > that might change the way people live, think, eat, listen to 
> > the news, discuss politics, treat or fellowman, care for our 
> > environment........support and not support a country racing to 
> > war..i don't know...I guess I am also asking myself why am I a
> > photographer?
> >
> > I am genuinely and passionately wondering why we the people 
> > with such skill and (expensive equipment) why do we do the 
> > thing we do...
> 
> Ruddy, I'm a photographer because the first thing I think of when I wake in the morning 
is making photographs, then I think of the stuff I gotta get out of the way first (i.e., eat, 
shower, feed dog, go to work) before I can make photographs.
> 
> [DPH]  We don't appreciate the things we don't understand ... and photographs can help 
us understand each other or in my case help us understand our enviornment. [/DPH]
> 
Can I say Hallelujah..I do not know if I spelt that right but this is what i am talking about.  
This is what I am asking, saying, feeling, and .....I cannot sleep because there are pics i 
did not take the day before.  Photography is my OOMMMMMMMM.  It centers me.  It makes 
me...period.  I dream of images that could make me and others understand this......thing 
we do everyday.

Thank You Doug..your email was like the holy grail
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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