Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]simon@camera-craftsman.com (Simon Stevens)2/12/027:20 AM > Unless you a photographing for a chocolate > box, the falling-down shack is more photogenic than the row of > ordinary > houses. The ordinary houses may be economically more > representative, but > a photograph of them will be too ordinary, uninteresting, maybe > cutesy. > Banal. I find the greatest challenge in overcoming this over-generalization - to find and communicate the extraordinary within the superficially mundane. Bill Owens did a pretty nice job of this with "Suburbia". George - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html