Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you George, It is the newcomer award, not the grand prize. We need to be encouraging youngsters, not berating them over how we would do it. There was a time when I was in my twenties, that if so many good photographers berated my stuff, I might have given it up. Sent from my iPhone Sonny Carter http://www.SonC.com/look > On Jul 12, 2015, at 12:40 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at > icloud.com> wrote: > > Bravo! Sonny. > Well thought. > Well said. > And speaking directly to the work under discussion; > rather than commenting on the "state of the art world" > which I consider vibrant, exciting, stimulating > as ever. > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not sure why one would go to the effort of owning a camera, making >> images if the goal is not to show someone else what you saw in that >> "augenblick" in time. >> >> It seems to me this thread has been pretty harsh on a young photographer >> who gained modest success by coming up by standing in a typhoon, coming >> up with a cohesive theme and following through. Contrary to some of the >> remarks here, several of the shots are pretty dang good in composition >> and drew me in. I'm really happy I looked at them before I read the >> thread. >> >> She saw something and wanted to share it. >> >> This whole thread sounds like a bunch of jealous old farts who own too >> much gear and post too few pictures. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information