Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Michael Gardner wrote: > 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. :-) I think it will Michael, and you will find good people here, willing to help you, Steve > > > 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 >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information