Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 29 Jun 2006 at 18:18, Ric Carter wrote: > I, for one, hope it's just a vacation, like he said. We're a poorer > place without him. THIS I agree with. As much as I hate to say it, I actually find myself agreeing with Kyle. This isn't a photo club, it's not a critique group, it's not a seminar or a workshop, it's a bunch of people all over the world who admire and do (or did) enjoy using a particular flavor of camera. This is an after-five photographers' bull session, no more, no less. (It's after five SOMEWHERE in the world, right?) The "barroom" metaphor is overused but totally apt (including the fact that there's usually a few people who ought to be sent home to sober up...) And by ANY single criterion, yeah, a bunch of the stuff that's posted is mediocre. Because NONE of it was posted to match any one particular criterion. When you get a bunch of photographers together, sometimes you get art, sometimes you get stories, sometimes you get snapshots that nobody would take a serious look at except that they're of people and places that are of interest to other members of the group. And because we're mostly among friends, sometimes stuff gets posted because we're not sure if the impact of the photo outweighs its technical or compositional or whatever faults... and the answer is "no, it doesn't." So BD's right, by one standard, but he's using too small a viewfinder for this group, or maybe he just takes it too damn seriously. Or maybe the rest of us do. It's a big world. Let's go make pictures. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request