Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Sonny and Steve, for the encouraging words. I've enjoyed the PAWs, PESOs whatever, for years lurking on the LUG. My photography tends to be very much project oriented and lately, somewhat sporadic. Hopefully, the discipline of the PAW will keep me motivated and the eye keen. :-) Michael On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Sonny Carter wrote: > >> It takes courage to put your work before an international audience >> of other >> Leica photographers, and I commend you for getting to it. >> >> My experience and my wonderful Leica gear was being wasted before, >> and I was >> plinking about, pulling out the camera every once in a while. >> >> When I read the Kyle Cassidy rhetorical question, "Do I deserve this >> camera?," I had to find out for myself if I deserve this camera. >> >> That was in the Spring of 2001. Since then, with encouragement and >> attaboys, and sometimes a ruler on the fingers, I have seen and >> felt a >> marked improvement in my ability to see, and show others what I see. >> >> Guess what? It's no longer a chore. I don't really do a >> disciplined every >> Monday posting anymore, but I do shoot and post regularly. Every >> once in a >> while I go tidy up my pages so I can look back and find my shots. >> >> Several years ago, I started posting Friday Flowers. I had done an >> assignment for Louisiana Life Magazine on Hodges Gardens and one of >> the >> listers did a Friday Follies at that time. So I posted Friday >> Flowers to >> this list and another. When my stats showed I had gotten hundreds >> of views >> in one day, I knew I was on to something. >> >> Last week's flower garnered nearly seven hundred views, and the >> week is not >> out yet. By the way, the above-mentioned magazine assignment came >> about >> after the editor googled "Spider Lily," and came up with one of my >> PAW >> pictures. This one: >> http://www.sonc.com/lily.htm > > Welcome, enjoy, participate....Sonny says it best... > > I have had a half dozen images found, selected, published in the > same way Sonny describes, including two covers... > > one, a medical book, > the other, out soon, on the cover of a book of poetry... > > :-) > > Steve > > >> >> >> Another tip, keep a camera with you always. It's terribly >> difficult to take >> a picture without one, and when great pictures jump out in front of >> you, >> you're ready. >> >> You'll know you are at the right place when you check to see if you >> have the >> camera before you check to see if you have your keys and wallet. >> >> Good Luck, and welcome! >> >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://www.sonc.com >> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> USA >> >>