Marnie, Good comments. I was too harsh in my assessment of PAW and PESO. It comes from my frustration at trying to follow and comment on these photos. Regards, Bob S.
On 10/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 10/9/2005 6:23:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm not learning much from the PAW and PESO photos and the > contributors are often the same small group of folks. I wish we had > wider participation from the group and a more meaningful discussion of > the photos. > > Regards, Bob S. > =========== > I learn something by sharing and by getting comments on my photos. I always > have. If nothing else I find out which ones struck chords (or didn't) in > others. > > Some people's bar maybe too high for other people's photos. We are all at > different skill levels. > > I think, however, it takes guts to share one's photos. Unless, that is, one > is highly confident about them. And sometimes it takes a lot of guts. > > When I have time I try to comment. But I don't always have something > illuminating to say. I try to make comments specific tot that particular > photo, but > sometimes it's just an "I like it." Why bother to even say that? So the person > sharing the photo knows someone looked at it. > > I enjoy the PESOs, and get something out of them (when I have time to look) > but I don't see how the bandwith could handle a great many more. > > Seems to me, the PUG suffers by contrast. It doesn't get ENOUGH comments. > Like ERN thinking others think she's mediocre, while she definitely is not, > because she was not getting any PUG feedback. > > Maybe if more of us commit to making sure to make some PUG comments that will > allevate some of those problems. > > I think meaningful discussion is hard to come by when it requires time and > effort and one is trying to keep up with a busy list and quite possibly a busy > life. Sometimes some photo strikes a chord and it happens, but usually all > people have time for is a swift assessment. > > Of course, you could add some meaningful discussion yourself. :-) > > The secret is, which is not a very big secret, when I react to other people's > photos and make comments they usually turn around (at some point) and make > comments on my photos in turn. If I make NO comments on others photos I don't > blame them at all for not making any comments on mine. That is why sometimes > the > pool of photo showers and commentators remains small. > > For instance, in this last round Paul, Mark, Boris, Cotty, Glen, sorry if I > am forgetting people, but those immediately jump to the top of my head, all > made comments on my photos. (Ignoring you for the moment.) And I have > commented > on their photos. So I would sort of "expect" some of those people to comment > now and then on mine. (Not positive about Glen, but think I have.) > > Turn around is fair play. > > But actually it seems to me the pool of sharers and commentators has > increased quite a bit over the last six months. > > And some people would rather talk about equipment than photos. For instance, > I am not that big a camera techie so I tend to focus more on the photos. I > don't have much to add to most equipment or techie threads. > > And, finally, well, you have to take pictures to show pictures. > > Duh, Marnie aka Doe ;-) > >
