[Leica] A photo which costs more than a Cindy Sherman!

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

>From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>

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>It's nothing more than... "see-shoot!"? Not a techie thought in a 
>multi-milli second! And the Great Spirit on my? 

>shoulder and trigger finger.... "CLICK!"???:-) Truth is? Heck I just got 
>lucky! :-)


"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." 



Yup.? Anyone COULD have shot that - had they put in the time, effort, money, 
training, etc.etc.so they'd know what to do and have the tools and reflexes 
and skill to do it and the willingness to do all the necessary pain in the 
butt stuff to be on the spot in the few thousandths of a second when the 
opportunity arose 


And yet.? There you are - the only one who DID shoot it.? On the spot with 
the tools and the reflexes. F8 and BE THERE.


Talking about whether someone else could have done it?? Sod that.  If anyone 
could have shot it, there'd be other versions. If pigs had wings, they'd be 
pigeons.

There's a lot more to this than most folk realize.



And then there's THIS shot, this 7-figures-worth-of-WTeverlovingF?!? print, 
which from what I can tell has no redeeming value whatsobloodyEVER...
The only saving grace is that I never expected that stuff to make sense; 
it's all marketing, and these days the only use I get out of the marketing 
classes I was required to take is that I know what to ignore....


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R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...