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Subject: [Leica] Out of Ideas : "Mastery" by George Leonard
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jun 24 16:12:49 2005

If you don't, you won't know what you're doing, why you're doing it, or how
you might improve it. Especially if you've already shot all the cows in Ohio
and can't think of anything else worth photographing. ;-)


On 6/24/05 6:21 PM, "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> wrote:

> IMHO if you try to analyze your motives you end up doing nothing.
> best,simon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Out of Ideas : "Mastery" by George Leonard
> 
> 
>> How about asking yourself why you're photographing in the first place?
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/24/05 11:42 AM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>  From what I read you've shot everything except macro, take a look at
>>> the world of the small for a change - get in close.
>>> Maybe you could take a crack at infrared too.
>>> Astrophotography of any interest?
>>> Douglas
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've run into a dry spell where I'm just about out of photo ideas.
>>>>>> I't seems like I've photographed every barn, cow, bird, bridge,
>>>>>> landscape, sunrise and sunset within a 30 mile radius of my home base
>>>>>> here in central Ohio (about 3000 images).  I've also run dry at our
>>>>>> vacation home on Lake Erie (about 1000 images).  In recent
>>>>>> correspondence with my brother in Maryland, he is also in the same
>>>>>> photo slump.  I don't really like shooting people, other than family
>>>>>> snaps, so street photography holds no appeal.  Travel does refresh
>>>>>> me, but  opportunities to do so are currently limited.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any ideas how to break this slump?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rob McClure
>>>>>> Upper Sandusky, OH
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> matt@kollarfoto.com | kollarfoto.com
>>>> 
>>>> 319.266.1143 | 319.240.1973 (mobile)
>>>> cedar falls, iowa ~ usa
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> There is a crack in everything
>>>> That's how the light gets in..."
>>>>     Leonard Cohen
>>>> 
>>>> 
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