Great shots on your site Mark! Birds and mammals and planes!
All taken with longer than 200mm glass it seems to me. Seems to average at
around 300mm!
Not one shot looks like anything resembling a job for a Rangefinder system.
Do we find the sparkling 'fingerprint' of Leica images anywhere on your
site?
I'll check out of Leica M if I were you. Why hang on?
You may love the tools but they are there to do a job.
But there are times when the tools are just fine.
But just a little quibble with semantics...
When you discover a new subject matter for your photos your present camera
or entire camera system does not "die".
The prints it helped create for you don't not instantly fade at that point.
The gear itself does not loose it's ability to crate viable images.
What happened to put it bluntly is you got bored with them and you had the
spare cash to be able to trade them in.
for the up to the minute stuff.
There's a feeling that it's impossible to make photographs with less then
what is felt to be up the minute gear but the fact is your cameras are doing
just fine. As are one would think the entire body of work you did with
them... Remaining quite viable.
Did the shots photographers started doing with VR lenses and Canons and
digital put what came before them in the dust? Did they have to throw them
out?
I think in comparision some of those prints still looked ok.
I think the history of bird and mammal and dirt bike photography imagery did
not change all that drastically VISUALLY. There were come issues of
convenience. Some ease technically.
The emphasis to me is on the prints. Not the gear.
Did you have to throw away all your non ant vibration and digital images
because the stuff you are not doing because of technological innovation is
putting them to shame? I think not.
I think though its natural for newer stuff to start replacing older stuff as
you get better as a photographer and just have more to choose from.
Boy the gear I've acquired in the past decade! Sure has not put much of a
dent in my portfolio. My camera bags look a lot different but my portfolio
stays pretty much the same!
That is 12 best shots taken since 1965. Or my 20 best. Or 50 best.
I think if you stuck with Leica M, Mark B. you'd not have a wildlife
website.
But all this other stuff just seems like love of gear. Not love of
photography.
I don't know what your prints look like but your images on your website
looks real nice on my screen.
I guess this is where I overstate my point but I think they'd have to look
even nicer if you were spending more time out in a blind and less time
inside at the terminal scouring the internet for the very latest high tech
gear to give you an excuse to sell off an entire system for.
>From where I sit Wildlife photography is like flying small planes.
It's all about putting the time in.
Flight time. Blind time. Same thing.
It's certainly weird that I should perhaps seem to take it almost personally
when I see on the internet people dismissing Nikon or Canon FD or
whatever... Speed Graphic - as "Dead" or whatever or in effect. I think the
geniuses who design and engineer these marvels if I was in the position to
bring them in coffee in a tray I'd be lucky. I'm sure I'd be low on the
waiting list.
I just hope that my commitment to my craft comes close to equaling theirs.
And I don't think it does. But I'm working on it.
I'm just wondering if ever I've made an image which is as beautiful as a
Leica MP itself! :)
Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/
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