Re: So you want to change the world with your Leica

["Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>]

On  6 May 97,  Donal Philby <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>  
wrote:

> Duane,
> 
> Thanks for the inspiration.  Quite frankly, I think all this is
> drifting ONTO subject.  

> Indeed, that our photography changes the photographer may be the
> most overlooked quality of photojournalism.  I've never particularly
> been on a crusade to change the world, but I've wanted people to
> experience what I've experienced or to just open their eyes to the
> things I've seen. Mostly I'm thankful for photography providing me a
> living and excuse to go poke my nose in places and have experiences.
> 
> Let me tell you about this Dominatrix I recently photographed.  On
> second thought  . . . . . .

All the above *can* and is most often done with different marques, 
Donal. I've long argued that this type of discussion is photographic 
mental masturbation. Your reference to a "Dominatrix" (gasp!) would 
seem to make my case. [Would you tell me about her in a private 
email?  8^)  ]
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Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
       Leica Historical Society Of America
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         Thought for the day:
    Communist (n): one who has given up all hope
    of becoming a Capitalist.