Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Photo school or what?
From: "Gregory Rubenstein" <gcr910@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 05:14:17 +0000

Tristan:

B.D. said it well and plainly, omitting, however, something important he 
said a few days ago: BE THERE.

Over the years -- my years include newspaper photojournalism, corporate 
publications and anything-that-pays freelancing -- BEING THERE has paid off 
pretty well. Good jobs turned up 'cuz I was somewhere with a camera. Have 
also missed opportunities 'cuz I was somewhere sans camera.

If news photography interests you, look at the number of Pulitzers and 
highly iconized images that are the simple result of someone -- a camera 
user, hobbyist or tourist -- BEING THERE.

Yeah, you've got to hone, whet and develop your photo skills, but you can do 
that in a whole lot of ways less painful to your budget, being and, perhaps, 
family, than dropping what you're doing and immersing yourself in school.

Think about what you want from photography, as others have suggested. Go 
from there. Embrace and move toward photography; don't simply run from a job 
you're sick of. You might find that's only the start a long, lousy race.

Greg Rubenstein

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