One Year Of Taking My M10 To Trump Protests

[erl]

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Let's be clear, how each of us spends our disposable dollar is nobody else's business. Commenting critically on, eg. Leica user's, is ignorant without a full understanding of their life circumstances. Like Tragg above, I have deprived myself frequently to support my desire for better cameras. As for working hard for my disposable dollar, I used to do 120 hours a week! How many 'finger pointer's' can/would match that?

[jdlaing]

Stop. You’re breaking my heart.

[pico]

OK, to my mind terms like “crappy snapshots” and “amateur crap” when discussing someone else’s work come across as rude while the statement “Never mind the M10. A $20 camera could do the same” appears arrogant. I guess one man’s ‘rude and arrogant’ is another man’s ‘blunt and direct’.

 

Yes, my words were not polite. I'm sure I could have sugar-coated or simply omitted such remarks. I am guilty

 

I would like to return to a philosophical issue as it regards this site, which is under German law. If one were to do a so-called documentary photo series which featured enthusiastic demonstrators dominated by Nazi symbols as posters, flags, banners and no illuminating, informing background would that be acceptable? The very greatest difficulty of photojournalism is telling the story. The easiest is uninformed advertisement of sentiment; that's what the photo article in question did.

 

Look to W. Eugene Smith's Minamata Disease essay for an example of photojournalism without flagrant public advertising which was available, but he ignored.

Edited February 5, 2018 by pico