Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:41 AM 4/26/99 -0700, you wrote: > I am not sure that being nominated for a pulitzer, is really a test >of one's photographic ability. Most of the time, it isn't. An amateur with a brownie won once. It's the moment in the Pulitzers that counts. The National Press Photographers' Pictures of the Year contest category "Photographer of the Year" is probably the best determiner of the best of the best. Though I think they've taken a strange turn with favoritism of portfolios that are black and white. Ignoring the fact that news photographers are required to shoot color for the most part, and that we can't stand around waiting for the "good light" if the moment is paramount. But in this case, the moment isn't like the Pulitzer contest because it had to be a body of work from the previous year. Anybody can get a great moment once in their life. Twenty in one year? Not likely. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Computers can never replace human stupidity.