Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Meaning changes over time
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:03:29 -0800

At 09:33 AM 11/11/99 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote:
>One of my photography instructors at the Corcoran heard that story and
>made me print the negative anyway. My print that shows the scene with a
>giant black ball in the sky, like some sort of vast alien spaceball or
>an inky black planet hovering over the scene. Moral: you may not know
>right away what the valuable pictures are: things change, and the
>meaning of pictures changes, over time.

Great story Mike. Digital photographers need to learn from you and Dirck.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch




      You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing 
things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you 
and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. -Elliott Erwitt, 
"More Joy of Photography"