Hello FujiForum members. I am new here as I am mainly a Leica M9 photographer. But I have enjoyed my Fuji XE1 and will probably get an X Pro2 once I am sure that the bugs are worked out and I can use my M lenses. My reason for commenting had to do with the comments on visiting India. I have looked at the websites by both Alf and Weisman and I wasn't very encouraged. As a working professional, please disregard my comments if the aim of the web images was to share the pleasure of photography at an amateur level. But asking people to sign up for a foreign trip and then have their images reviewed should require a far more impressive visual approach then depicting colorful faces sitting on a bench. The world is getting smaller and smaller and the "deep dark continents" are looking more and more like Walmarts. As photographers we should be making images that have strong content with something to say about life and culture and less about the shock value of the "other." As a a well traveled pro with 35 years under my belt, you'll need to go much further and get more intimate for me to consider someone a peer or a mentor.
As for the requests by Alf to show and prove, I agree some perspective would be fair. http://dixondeuxyeux.com/indiaportfolio.html I consider these files average. I don't give away my best work for free. But then my use of average is relative.
Wherever you travel, go and get dirty. Lose yourself and then enjoy finding the road back home.
Martin Dixon
Dakar, Sénégal
Author, photographer of Brooklyn Kings: New York City's Black Bikers
