Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon says: > > I could not bring myself to take any pictures because I felt that it was an > intrusion into a very private gathering. I guess that there is more to > Photography than I thought. Simon, this subject is of intense interest to me, and probably the biggest robber of pictures for most people on the list. I was a news photographer for many years, and it seems strange that I'd be shy of intruding, but in places like you describe, I have been. Something happened to me some 78 weeks ago; I started on my quest for a picture a week. In order to do that, I take a camera with me everywhere. I tried the little pocket cameras, but they were always in my pocket, or in my briefcase. So I started carrying my Leica CL everywhere. Guess what? I started taking more pictures. Then the CL needed CLA, so while it was a Sherry's, I began using my M6 for the same task. Everywhere. Church, the store, parties, wherever I go, there is also the camera. (Well, almost, there was my lament last week of not having a camera when a picture op popped up at a fast trip to the Pharmacy.) It has come to the point people I know expect me to brandish a camera at any particular moment. It is easy to take pictures, because people expect it of me. This can happen to you too. You just need to start taking that camera everywhere! Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html