It still sounds like Zen photography to me. Which is perfectly OK, though
difficult to achieve. Mostly because folks are too worried about other
people's opinions. If you shoot pictures to earn a living, you must be
concerned with the client's opinion. If you shoot pictures only for
yourself, to advance your picture taking skill, then you can take a very Zen
approach. We definitely have some of each here. It shows in the PUG.
Len
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Walkden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:03 PM
To: Paris, Leonard
Subject: Re[4]: One Sentence - Yeah but is it art?
Hi,
I don't think they ate sushi back in the FSA days, did they?
What he's saying is: don't gild the lily; let the subject be itself,
and try to reveal it with utmost clarity.
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Bob
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Wednesday, August 29, 2001, 6:34:08 PM, you wrote:
> In essence, looking for a flash of insight, or epiphany, or a moment of
> satori in every shot. Sounds like a way to define shibumi.
> Len
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Walkden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him
> who can discern it, and centrally and simply, without either
> dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of
> consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect
> of a street in sunlight can roar into the heart of itself as a
> symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is
> shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive
> simply the cruel radiance of what is."
> James Agee - "Let us now praise famous men".
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