RE: #401

Subject:#401

geebee wrote:

>Colour version of previously posted M6 b&w shot.

>>Leica Minilux : Agfa Vista 200

>>http://www.geebeephoto.com/2007/07401.htm<<

 

Hi Graham,

Pure simplicity at it's best! Beautiful! :-)

If we consider the bulk of your photography comes from "your own back yard,"
you constantly prove the old whine by photographers is pure nonsense! "I'd
be much better if I were in (name your own country) and I'd be a smashing
great photographer!" You always prove otherwise!

 

If one can't cut the mustard in your own town, city, country you sure as
hell aren't going to do it in another country.

 

It's much like people when looking at my work from the Olympics who say.
"Well these are good because it's at the Olympics! That's why your pictures
are interesting!" 

Followed by, "If I could go to the Olympics I'd shoot great stuff because
there's so many super athletes to photograph!"  WRONG!!!!!!!!

 

Dumb ass photographers don't understand you have to shoot great photos at
the local high school track meet first. then maybe the quality of what you
produce there will get you a spot to cover the Olympics! 

 

I mean if you haven't been shoulder to shoulder trying to shoot something
different than the other 300 sports photogs crammed around you like sardines
in a can, then you have absolutely no idea what the pressures are to succeed
at the Olympics!

 

The high school track meet is a piece of cake because you could be the only
photog in sight! 

And the whole place is yours without any "Photo positions" designated where
you have to shoot from whether the light, angle or otherwise is good, bad or
ugly!" 

 

So what you do Graham is, you teach us day after day it's quite possible to
find very interesting photographs in our own areas if we just go out and
look for them.

Thanks again for another great teaching photograph!

ted

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