[Leica] Why I called mr hajj a moron ...

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Walt also sez...
Hajj sure coulda used one of Scott Kelby's books ;-)

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>walt sed:
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>>I really don't see it that way. I have the greatest respect for Kyle
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>>his images but thought he might have been too quick to condemn. You 
>>know, the old "mile in my dockers" kinda thing? If it seemed ill- 
>>advised on my part then perhaps he will accept an apology? Maybe even 
>>turn the other cheek and let me wonder why he referred to Hajj as a 
>>moron? Maybe we all need to sit back, take a stress pill and relax? 
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>i do not doubt mr hajj's courage. only his photoshop skillz which are
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>Childish -- at best. Any one of us could have shopped it better in 2
>minutes (which
>Is what I did). I doubt his mental capacity because he took such a ham
>handed image and actually handed it in to his photo editor. He might as 
>Well have handed the guy a bananna.
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>And as for how difficult it is to photograph people with unloaded guns,
>Let me tell you about lousiana. In lousiana, everybody has a gun. And as
>you go door-to-door photographing them, "southern hospitality" requires
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>They offer you burbon and ice. After five or six portraits one of your
>eyeballs is pointed in one direction and the other is bouncing up and
>down
>like a dribbled basketball. In this state it's very easy to become
>injured
>tripping over a curb or getting tangled in your own flash cord.
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>I was in every bit as much peril as mr. hajj was from the roof of the
>Palestine hotel.
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