Re: [Leica] kids? leica? a stern reprimand from the PLUG

[Ted <tedgrant@home.com>]

Kyle Cassidy jotted down the following:

> photography is about the RESULT not the JOURNEY.

Martin Howard responded::

> >>>Oh boy.  Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.  Photography *is* the
>
> journey.  The meeting of other people.  Switching into visual rather than
> linguistic processing.  The sweet smell of hypo.  The frantic waiving of
> arms under the enlarger light.  Presenting a print to a friend.  Acquiring a
> skill and a craft.  Learning more about how you see the world.  Learning to
> see light.
>
> The negative, scan, or print is merely a tool, an admission ticket to this
> journey.<<<<<<<
>

Gentle,  men!
You both are right and wrong, as it takes both to have the best of both!

Kyle's analysis is right, but if one doesn't take the trip of taking pictures
and learning the seeing first, then the end result is null and void. Or probably
one stage past worthless.

Martin is also correct in the sense of it's more than just the negative, scan or
print. It is the many facets of all photography that makes the trip and final
product worthy of being something worth looking at and to be called a successful
photograph.. And without a doubt, one aspect without the other begets nothing in
either case.

So gentle men, you are both right and both wrong! Now figure that out and it'll
start another topic! ;-)

ted