Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dr, Grant says: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:13 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > ..... > > But has anyone ever thought that maybe? Just maybe? There is some shy kind > of shooter in the back woods of Alaska, France, Russia or any other > location? Who has quietly gone about his life shooting brilliant images > about the world because he loves doing it? And his or her photography puts > almost everyone else to near shame? > > But simply because he's never been published "BIG-TIME!" Ala HCB, AA and > many others considered "Holy Grail exposures of film!" That the photography > doesn't rate simply because we've never seen nor heard of either? > > "They walk amongst us quietly doing their thing !" > > You mean like Vivian Maier, who shot Chicago for 40 years with a Rolliflex and no one knew about her excellent work until now? Oh yes, definitely, quiet but excellent photog do walk the earth :-) -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]