When I was 10 a traded away a toy car (big wooden one) for a camera (Agfa
6x9).
That was 45 years ago and I've been photographing ever since.
What inspired me? Life, I guess.
I don't really have idols. I like Georges Meis Greek postcards, though.
Especially his panoramas:
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Emne: RE: What inspired you?
When I was 10 a traded away a toy car (big wooden one) for a camera (Agfa
6x9).
That was 45 years ago and I've been photographing ever since.
What inspired me? Life, I guess.
I don't really have idols. I like Georges
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Emne: RE: What inspired you?
When I was 10 a traded away a toy car (big wooden one) for a camera (Agfa
6x9).
That was 45 years ago and I've been photographing ever since.
What inspired me? Life, I guess.
I don't really have idols. I like Georges Meis Greek postcards, though.
Especially
Capa, Rosenthal, Brady and Adams.
I'm probably not adding anything relevant, but...
Hefner, Guccione and Randall.
William Robb
See below:
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
- Original Message -
From: Malcolm Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 3:49 AM
Subject: RE: What inspired you?
I am concerned that what they have taken will be lost. I already know
people
On 8/8/05, John Coyle, discombobulated, unleashed:
I spoke to Ryan today, and
he has lost all but 20 of the pictures he's taken since March due to two
hard drive failures!
Yo Ry, that big Canon slowing you down a bit?
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
John Coyle wrote:
Even those who know the risks can get caught out: I spoke to
Ryan today, and he has lost all but 20 of the pictures he's
taken since March due to two hard drive failures!
I'm even more glad I use both Cd's and HD's for storage...
Yes, it must be a horror when it happens,
Shel,
Thanks for sending this. I might just go check it out.
Pat in SF
--- Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Malcom,
Your comment reminded me of an article I read in the local fish wrap a few
days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/av2ta
Shel
[Original Message]
From:
The BBC recently screened a series called The Lost World of Mitchell and
Kenyon, which shows recently rediscovered and restored footage of Northern
England shot in the Edwardian era.
http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bfidvd692bklist=icat,4,,5,historyothers
It is quite remarkable to see the people and
At 02:21 PM 8/6/2005, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Much like computers and backups, most of us don't back up like we
should until we get burned once or twice. Yes, a significant portion
of the digital photos being taken now will probably be lost forever.
That's not always a bad thing. I purposely
No family members or photographers inspired me. For me, the most
important photographs are pieces of memory. How people were, how the
city was looking. I'm very intrigued by pictures of decennia old; times
I cannot remember anymore, or times I even wasn't born yet. Once you
start contemplating
Vic Mortelmans wrote:
No family members or photographers inspired me. For me, the
most important photographs are pieces of memory. How people
were, how the city was looking. I'm very intrigued by
pictures of decennia old; times I cannot remember anymore, or
times I even wasn't born yet.
Hi Malcom,
Your comment reminded me of an article I read in the local fish wrap a few
days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/av2ta
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Malcolm Smith
Even in the three decades I have taken photographs, it isn't just the
physical change of the surroundings that are
Hi Shel,
Your comment reminded me of an article I read in the local
fish wrap a few days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/av2ta
Thanks, an interesting link. Just goes to show that any effort involved
shows through to the results. As an aside,
from when I was young I remember family members
Hello Malcolm,
I don't disagree with what you have said. One slightly different
angle though, is that those people who are now thoughtlessly using
digital to create worthless images, didn't use to create images at all
or thoughtlessly used a one time use or PS camera to accomplish the
same
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I don't disagree with what you have said. One slightly
different angle though, is that those people who are now
thoughtlessly using digital to create worthless images,
didn't use to create images at all or thoughtlessly used a
one time use or PS camera to
Hello Malcolm,
About 1 month ago a friend of mine told me that his digital camera was
stolen. He had 6 months worth of pictures on it that he had never
bothered to download or print yet. It contained two summer vacations,
birthdays, his son's baseball season (including pitching first year),
Interesting question Bob,
My father was into photography - developing and all - before we children
showed up. Yet he continued to shoot still and movies as we grew up...
so I guess I inherited that from him.
There is no one photo or photographer that I can point to, but I do
recall reading
Message-
From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26. juli 2005 01:19
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: What inspired you?
On 7/24/05, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being inspired by
Munkacsi's
photo of the boys running
Robert Doisneau. I can't say that he's my favorite photographer now,
but his low key, seemingly inobtrusive style is what made me want to
try to make photographs like that at first.
j
On 7/24/05, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being
On 7/24/05, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being inspired by Munkacsi's
photo of the boys running into the surf. I got to thinking about the photo
which first made me aware of photography, and the first photographer whose
name I actively
Hi,
I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being inspired by Munkacsi's
photo of the boys running into the surf. I got to thinking about the photo
which first made me aware of photography, and the first photographer whose
name I actively sought out and remembered.
In the early 1970s I
it, perhaps one
of you knows the one I'm speaking of.
Haven't any idea (anymore) who the photographer was.
Don
-Original Message-
From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:15 AM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: What inspired you?
Hi,
I sent an email
I don't remember exactly.
My grandfather, my father and both my father's brothers were
interested in photography. I guess I got interested because they
were. I started taking pictures at the age of 8 ... didn't see a
photo book (as opposed to a book about cameras and photographic
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: (among other things; I'm just using this
sentence of his as a jumping-off point)
I looked at yearbooks and felt I could do much better.
I looked at National Geographic and thought I can do that.
I was *very* young then ...
Bob W wrote:
What photographs and photographers were your first inspiration?
A school project at a very early age that gave me an excuse to ask for a
camera I suspect; then the realisation I could capture places and moments
outside and bring them indoors to keep. My father took very good
On 24/7/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
What photographs and photographers were your first inspiration?
Gosh I can't remember.
It was 1977 when I did photography at art college. I can't remember being
inspired by anyone. Possibly Ansel Adams. But I was discovering other art
forms as
Early on, say ten years old or so, I was enamored of the process that
allowed one to record a scene on film and paper. I found it amazing and
fascinating. In later years, I wanted to illustrate magazine articles
I was writing, so I became somewhat serious about my photography. Much
later, ten
The back page of Life Magazine. Always the first place I looked whenever I
got my hands on one. And I remember the disappointment when the usually
great photos occasionally did not impress or inspire. Wished I could have
a camera that would make big beautiful photos like that.
Powell
enablement, long before this list really got me going!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
- Original Message -
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:14 AM
Subject: What inspired you?
Hi,
I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being
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