[Leica] I hope you people don't mind! :-( :-(

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Bless you Ted. I can only add one thing to this post - and that is that
the vast, vast majority of images we consider iconic, shot by HCB, WES,
Robert Capa, and on and on, were shot using lenses which, though they were
manufactured in Germany, were Coke bottle bottoms by today's standards,
and were shot on film which is, but today's standards, pretty sad. And yet
our hearts go 'pitty-pat' when we see them. Why? Because of the
composition; because of the subject matter; because of the way they bring
us slices of life.

On 6/14/12 12:16 PM, "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

>Man I don't know if I got up off the wrong side of the bed this morning?
>Had 
>horrible nightmares? Sure didn't have anything to drink other than water
>and 
>a cup of coffee I'm drinking at the moment.
>
>Which since awakening another morning to all the wasted picture taking
>time.... "YOURS & MINE!" Because as I always do, click on what the
>weather 
>for the day should be....... "another wasted bit of time." I should just
>look out the window! If the sun is shining leave the blind-up and know
>it's 
>worth "GOING OUT FOR A WALK ABOUT HAPPY SNAPPING SOMETHING!" Or it's
>crappy 
>weather and go waste the day looking at the screen again!
>
>But really sometimes all you folks get off on the equipment crap that
>becomes nothing but a bucket of puke given you chase lenses, this that
>and 
>every kind of camera types you've owned or wouldn't own, used, or a
>tripod, 
>the colour in a slide is right, wrong, good, bad or ugly!!!
>
>But the techie babblefest is becoming  an extremely tiring drone that's
>both 
>blinding and deafening. For a few short days there was a wonderful flood
>of 
>cruise ship photos really interesting and worth following, comparing and
>enjoying the viewing time.
>
>So OK I haven't posted anything either! WHY? Well my pea sized brain is
>overwhelmed with the canon vs. the S2, the Nikon with or without a lens
>of 
>50mm some say they wouldn't use for the bottom of a coke bottle and it
>goes 
>on. Grain, no grain, etc etc.
>
>And when you get off on all this kind of crap you all seem to forget the
>most important part of the picture taking process....... "THE CONTENT OF
>THE 
>PHOTOGRAPH AND HOW YOU ARE MOVED BY IT!" Never mind what the hell
>lens/camera you used!
>
>Now there you go! Maybe it's just me and how somedays around here are
>horrible bouts of god damn memories instead of my beautiful wife being
>here! 
>:-( And I can't see the keys for crying and I'm just pissed off with the
>world and everything in it! Sorry about the rant.But thanks for the
>shoulders to cry on!.
>
> :-(
>
>ted
>
>
>
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