In a message dated 10/10/2005 7:33:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/images/motherchild.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~pdml-pics/nflguy2.html http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/puppet-woman.jpg However, there's no reason why you should do "street photography" if that's not what you enjoy doing. Photograph what you enjoy, and get good at ~that~ and forget about making photos that make you uncomfortable and that you don't enjoy. Unless you want to change your personality, and have a compelling reason to photograph in the concrete caverns, stay out in the countryside and photograph what gives you pleasure. Frankly, you don't have the temperament to be a good "street photographer." You're too tentative, too concerned about intruding on people, too unsure of your gear (as I remember it), and you've not the time to practice the needed skills. It's like me doing macro flower shots or photographing insect genitalia .. I don't have the interest or the skill, so why bother? Shel =========== All nice shots, I especially like the first and last. Somehow, Shel, I think there is something different from being invited in and not being invited in. But I am trying not to make a negative value judgment about what anyone else does. I am not nearly as tentative as you see me. I wouldn't be on a list that is 99.50% men and showing my pictures on that list if I was. ;-) Or posting as many messages as I often do. Am I often unsure how others will receive my work? Sure. But I still show it and I can survive the slings and arrows of criticism. I used to sit in art critiques in painting classes. Yeah, I might get upset some times if someone doesn't like something of mine, but the upset passes fairly quickly. I really don't think everyone likes everything, or that I will please everyone. And the more "arty" I get with something the more I expect not to please other people. And I am not sure if I am really, really "arty" that I WANT to please a lot of other people. ;-) Am I concerned with other people's feelings now and then? Sure. I am female, it comes with the territory. <g> I don't mind if I am not cut out for street photography, I was just trying to see if the closer is better premise worked or had limits or anything. A rather nonscientific test because the photo may not have been the best for that. So it may not prove anything. But I was curious. I have my own conclusions about things, street photography and what I like to shoot and why. <g> Marnie aka Doe
