Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/07

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Subject: [Leica] I really disagree with this policy
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed Sep 7 05:14:15 2005

on 9/7/05 1:27 AM, Paul at paul@paulhardycarter.com wrote:

> ... I remember a conversation in Sarajevo - long after the war
> - when a survivor was telling me how much everyone
> had detested the photographers who, during the siege, would turn up
> with their long lenses and sit in an armoured car and wait to get a
> picture of an old lady getting shot by a sniper on her way to the
> market. They hated them almost as much as the snipers themselves.

photon snipers, yecch!  It's one of many reasons l prefer to use shorter
lenses for my wildlife photos.  The shorter lens forces me to become engaged
with the subject's life.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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