[Leica] RE: Eric's site

[Jorg Willems <jorg@salesmedia.com>]

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From:	Shawn London [SMTP:srlondon@ibm.net]

Christian Becker wrote:
>Well, Eric, I visited your side to, and want to comment on the above
>statement and your pictures:
snip!
>But concerning the 'messages', well, frankly (and without wanting to
>insult you) I find most of your pictures unimpressive. There are of

I'm curious about how the author of this text could think that any good
might come out of posting an affront like this on the LUG.
....
Knowing that there are people who will reach out from halfway across the
world to deride years of your work is no incentive to go to the trouble.

As my mother told me, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say
anything at all."

I don't think that Christian had any intention for anything good to come 
out of this.  His ruthless display of his own (allegedly "radical 
personal") opinion (better "cynical regurgitation") is a pitiful exercise 
of self-importance or an example of a misguided "Berliner Schnautze".  He 
might think to be honest or funny. Go figure!

I would like to know Christian's credentials that qualifies him to be that 
critical of Eric's pictures and I would like to know what suggestions 
Christian could render to Eric (and to all of us LUGs) to become a better 
photographer?  I happen to think that Eric's pictures have that "decisive 
moment" and every time they tell a story.

When Ted Grant rendered his critique last year in Kennebunkport he was very 
blunt and specific, and therefore most helpful.  But then .... I guess 
Ted's mother taught him the same values that Shawn's and my mother taught 
us (or is it your lovely wife, Ted, that keeps you polite [most of the 
time]?)

Jorg Willems