Re: [Leica] What's it all about? Alfie's Paw

["Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>]

Hi Alfie,  I agree with Jeff below. Further I suggest you take down all the
PAW images that you have posted for months to come.

Then start over again, one image at a time... ...while carefully
considering Jeff's comments.    Steve


> My suggestions to Alfie:
>
> The PAW is a Photo-A-Week. Suggestions made here this week won't improve
> next week's PAW because you've already posted your PAWs for weeks up to
> March, 2002.
>
> Don't tell us what we are supposed to be thinking or seeing when we are
> looking at your images. If something is ironic, we'll understand that. If
> something seems surrealistic, hopefully we'll see that too. If you have
to
> tell us what we are thinking when we look at your images, it's a bit like
a
> mime saying out loud "now I'm trapped in a box, now I'm pulling a piece
of
> rope" etc. When people post humorous pictures, none of them say "you are
> supposed to laugh when you see this".
>
> Keep in mind that having a Leica does not substitute for good technique.
> Everyone has to start at the bottom and work their way up. I didn't own a
> Leica until I was 51 years old.
>
> If you don't think something is worthy of posting for the entire world to
> see, go back out and shoot more images. I didn't let anyone see my first
100
> rolls of images because I wasn't good enough at that point to be
displaying
> things publically.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA


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