Allen Herbert

<p>Really worth the bother of putting on your camera?</p> <p>Sony, Fuji, Olympus, have quality lenses....so, why bother with yesteryear lenses? lost in time lenses.</p> <p>What really have they got to offer these old, back in time, lenses. Just for the oldie folk.....lost in a dream/fantasy of yesteryear and some special magic that these lenses can do></p> <p> </p>

<p>I like to play with the children. A lot.</p> <p>But then , sometimes, I like to talk to the Gods.</p>

<p>Often Philosophy can be lost in fantasy losing touch with reality. </p> <p><em>"The speeding train of thought flashes by and suddenly you are released back into space and time by a force that moves your life forward …as if struck by an idea."</em><br> <em> </em><br> <em>The moment is concerned with a lack of space in a an undulating reality lost in a uncrowned truth. </em><br> <em> </em><br> <em>The truth is not concerned but seeks an unconditional response to the banal of a lost secant of time.</em><br> <em>Easily understandable to a mind of a purity which is is proud to open itself to indulge itself in a moment of sublime seventy.<br /></em></p> <p><em>Three things in life are destructive :<br /></em></p> <p><em>Anger, greed, and self esteem.<br /></em></p> <p><em>Just a few thoughts.<br /></em><br> <em> <br /></em></p>

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<p>"What's your take on yourself when in public as compared to when in private, and on the people that you see and photograph in public?"</p> <p>Private is the candid photograph. A reality.</p> <p> </p>

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<p>Oops, D7000</p>

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<p>If scissors are not used daily on the beard it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head.</p>

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<p>"It seems as though every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a DSLR or a EVF camera out there snapping strangers"</p> <p>Not in my part of the world. Rarely do I come across another street photographer...sort of feel lonely sometimes.</p> <p>Among the Tom, Dick, and Harry will emerge talent which we can all enjoy....the more the merrier.</p> <p>"and the folks with cameras bugged me no end, not because they were simply doing something which I had the option of ignoring but because they were rude, obtrusive, and clueless about the space of the other" Fred.</p> <p>I was asked recently to take candid photos at a wedding. What a challenge the couple were mobbed by folks with cell phones/ps cameras....the shoulder barging would have done credit to a rugby team. Hey, the fairer sex were the main culprits and had the sharpest elbows.</p> <p>So, I take Fred's point.</p> <p>.</p>

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<p>I agee with Bela. Fuji are all about strong colours on any of their cams.</p> <p>"Ken Rockwell is nothing short of a buffoon. I have nothing to add."</p> <p>Just bad manners to call someone names when they are not here to defend themselves.</p> <div></div>

<p>"A photo does not need words...it has its own words."</p> <p>"That's fine for the passive audience, the true believers, the rubes and marks, or even the dilettantes like the apocryphal story of the emperor chiding Mozart over "too many notes"</p> <p>Okay, I'm lost in space here particularly the thing about "rubes and marks". But they must be bad folk so I would want to avoid them. Hey, dude you are a rube and a mark...scary Al Capone stuff.</p> <p>A photo talks a thousand words but a thousand words cannot talk a photo.</p> <p>A good photo stands alone but to discuss, analysis...all good stuff... where have I said any different?</p> <p> </p><div></div>

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