[LRflex] Re: Future R system NOW... LEARNING.
- From: "Axel Collier" <axel.collier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:37:03 +0200
Hi Richard
thank you for your kind and wise words.
I am sure i will enjoy the endeavour before me, as you put it so nicely.
greetings from Belgium, Axel
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From: "Richard Ward" <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:51 AM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Future R system NOW... LEARNING.
> Greetings to Axel and to Ted,
> first a thank you to Ted for offering to mentor the fellow on the craft
> of
> photography and second I say to Axel that I hope the fortunes of life
> allow you
> to take good advantage of the opportunity before you.
> It occurs to me that a quote from HCB would fit at this moment. It's in
> the
> 'sig line' of all my emails.
>
>
> "There is a joy in taking photographs that will always be there, it is
> the joy
> of looking, of capturing that fraction of a second, it is the
> photographic
> shot, the intuitive shot..." (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
> Feeling a moment, sensing a shot, viscerally experiencing 'something',
> images
> flow directly from an emotion - the intuition to shoot. Whether it's
> Grandma
> snapping a grandchild's smiling face or Ansel recording the 'soot-n-ashes'
> after
> a forest fire, we shoot images of things we first felt in some manner.
>
> In my own life I've learned and built and fought for the photographic
> crafts
> I've developed so the photographs I now make have a much better chance of
> carrying the feeling I shot them with than when I first set out to shoot
> images
> with a camera.
>
> Craft won't put feeling in a photographers images, but a lack of craft
> can
> certainly keep an image from having the feelings he wanted to be in it in
> the
> first place.
>
> May you both enjoy the endeavour before you.
>
> Richard in Michigan
> ________________________________
>
>
> "There is a joy in taking photographs that will always be there, it is the
> joy
> of looking, of capturing that fraction of a second, it is the photographic
> shot,
> the intuitive shot..." (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
> ________________________________
>
>
> â?oNo man hath given his child anything better than good manners.â??
> - Prophet Muhammad (570-632)
> ________________________________
>
>
>
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