Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] Homeless cats
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:40:32 +0000

>>>What about my environmental portrait of homelss cat with flowers
taken with
a Kreigsmarine Leica<<<

THAT I would like to see.

For the record: it is possible to make a good photograph of just about
any hackneyed subject. In fact, I often thought it would make a great
book to present a number of excellent photographers with a list of the
worst cliches, and challenge them to make original and unusual
photographs. It can be done! For a while I was going to make a portfolio
like this. Fall foliage, rowboats, sunsets (in b&w, of course), kitties,
flowers, ugh, ugh, ugh. Only different...

- --Mike