Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] David Turnley's workshop day 3
From: "John Hudson" <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:44:39 -0700

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From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net>
To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] David Turnley's workshop day 3


>On 7/18/99 1:21 AM javalee wrote:
>
>>I left today feeling somewhat elated.. not so much from what my
'classmates'
>>thought abt my work, but David did pick one of my shots as his favorite
>>during whole workshop..
>>It was a picture of a couple kissing on a bench.. he says it's 'timeless,
>>cud've been taken in Paris, etc'... I'm afraid to ask if the picture is
>>really that good or was it the quality of the lens??
>
>Ting...Is it the lens????  BU**SH**  the lens DID NOT TAKE THE PHOTO.
>You did.  All the lens and camera are are tools nothing more.  They are
>inanimate pieces of glass and metal. Just because it is a Leica lens and
>one stop faster than most other camera makers make is no reason to give
>the lens some kind of supernatural abilities.
>
>Believe me if David Turnley liked your photos enough to ask you to shoot
>photos of him and his kid then you definitely are doing something right.

Didn't the late Herbert von Karajan happen to ask Anne-Sophie Mutter to play
her fiddle for him one day? The rest is history.

jh