[Leica] Re: Coming back to film - film or digital ?

[geebee at geebeephoto.com (GeeBee)]

From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>

Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Coming back to film - film or digital ?


> 2004 is the first time in 4 years that I will
> shoot more film frames than digital.   The good news
> is that the (low) quality of my photography proves
> remarkably resilient to any medium changes.
> I have convinced myself beyond any possible doubt
> that it just does not matter.  :-)
>
> So Be Drunk  ! Enivrez-vous !  Live up the passion
>
> One must always shoot. That is the only thing that
> matters.  So as not to feel the hideous weight of Time
> breaking your shoulders and bowing you to the earth,
> you must shoot without rest.
>
> But with what? With Tri-X, slides, or digital as you please.
> Just shoot.
>
> And if sometimes, when you wake up on the steps of
> the palace,  or on the green grass of a ditch, or in the gloomy
> solitude of your room, your  Lagavullin stupor already
> ebbing or gone,  ask the wind, the wave, the star; the bird, the clock;
> ask everything that flies, everything that moans or moves,
> everything that sings, everything that speaks,
> ask what time it is; and the wind, wave, star,
> bird, clock will tell you, "It's time to shoot! So as not to be the
> martyred slaves of time, shoot, shoot without ceasing!
> WIth Tri-X, slides or digital, as you choose."
>
> Just shoot.
>
> :-)
>
> - Phong
> with profuse apologies to Baudelaire and his multitudes of fans
> (I did spend 2 hours today in an cemetery shooting, in fact
> sometimes with my face in the grass in a ditch.  With color slides).
>
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I vote we send all posts to Phong so he can rewrite them before they hit the
LUG. Call it an entertainment tweak :-)

gb