Re: [Leica] RE: Eric's site & the LUG Gestapo

[Stephen <cameras@jetlink.net>]

I personally find it very amusing  that so many people are upset about
someone's  honest appraisal of Eric pics.   So what if Becker doesn't
like the images ?   Becker is still  entitled to have that opinion and
to be able to post that view without being lambasted for it.

ANYONE has the right to an opinion on photographs, and has the right to
express that opinion on the net, or on the LUG.  The notion that one
person's opinion on a photograph is someone better than someone else's
is bullshit as far as I am concerned.  Either you like it or you don't,
that's all there is to it.   Other factors like experience, awards, LUG
contributions,  how well someone is liked, what your mother said,  or
how it will be received by the defenders of Eric,  are all irrelevant
when it comes down to "Do you like the picture or not?"

That the LUG Police want to verbally abuse and flame  anyone for posting
a negative appraisal of  Eric's pics shows far more about the  Gestapo
than it does about Eric's pics or someone who isn't particularly
impressed by them.

What about the freedom of speech and the discussion of ideas?

To avoid similar  problems in the future,   please post guidelines of
what LUG members may or may not write or think.

Stephen Gandy