Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many of them are great photos and the vast majority aren't depressing at all until you read the caption. If you need to add words, you've failed. Marty On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:35 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Tina Manley offered ?& asked: > Subject: [Leica] Time Photos of the Year > > >> LUG: >> >> http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2036245,00.html >> >> <http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2036245,00.html>Why are >> they >> all so depressing? ?Do photos showing the joy and love in the world not >> have >> as much impact? > > Hi Tina, > The answer is extremely simple! Sick & dying humans, death and destruction, > doom and gloom and all the atrocities human unto human makes so much money > for big publications, not just Time, but all the so called "News magazines > of the world!" Gross and destruction, war never ending war, dying children > and every other horrible condition of man kind sells! BIGTIME! > > WHY? > > Well for whatever reason humanity has lost it's way in caring and > giving.... > more so not caring for others than the amount of money and food they can > put > in their pockets than if Mamma dies during birthing or not! :-( > > I believe the world has slipped into an unforgiving mess of ..... "nobody > really cares anymore" EXAMPLE: Haiti has a massive earthquake, death and > destruction every where. Cholera breaks out, hundreds dying, an election is > held and it appears so corrupt it only adds to more dying and like, "WHO > CARES?" > IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, ?and who knows where next? It's all this kind of stuff > day after day is why TIME is full of ugly death photographs. > > Just try and imagine TIME filled with beautiful photos of sun bathed wheat > fields being peacefully harvested. Fishermen unloading bountiful catches of > fresh fish. No dying and starving children! WHY? Because the kids are > properly fed and clothed in class rooms learning peace and harmony amongst > all mankind! And corruption is a fiction book of times long gone! > > Unfortunately that was a silly moment of ?my mind! > > However it would be nice, wouldn't it? > Sadly :-( > ted > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >