Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think we burn out every two or three years. If you don't have to pay rent, you might quit. If you have bills, you hang in there, keep pushing the shutter, and you get over it. What's the old comment? "Exhaustion--now there's a rich man's disease." Maybe the most important thing about a PAW is the "reason" to shoot today whether you feel like it or not. While few of us will ever do anything important, at least you are documenting your little corner of the world. Be sure to arrange donation of your images to a archival library. We are recording bits of history. That's a purpose that's maybe enough. Ric Carter Assistant to the Grand Secretary 919.787.2021 On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:41 PM, bob palmieri wrote: > Folks - > > Thanks for all the on & off-list comments on the handful of images I > threw up recently.(???!!) Because of the nature of these comments > (pretty positive), I'm gonna take a leap and say what I think about > them. > > They're fine. They're OK. I think I have a pretty good handle on > how to make stuff work within a rectangle (like so many others on > the LUG.). You know; simplify forms, help make the viewing easy on > the eye movements, a little visual rhyming, throw in some geometry > and sometimes a bit of chiaroscuro dramatics and you get something > that looks like a pretty good snap. > > Truth is, it's all seeming kindof cheap & facile to me these days. > Sometimes I think that I just do this stuff to sharpen my hunting > skills, in case I actually need to shoot something of real value. > > Could be one of those midlife things, but having some control of the > elements of visual vocabulary was supposed to be an intermediate > step, and I'm feeling like the next step is gonna involve a lot of > personal work to figure out if I have anything I really want to say > with shooting. > > Maybe it's just another version of the "sharp picture of a fuzzy > concept" thing. More like "well arranged graphically functional > pictures of fuzzy concepts." > > Does this make sense?? > > Bob Palmieri > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information