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Bob
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 6:14:24 AM, you wrote:
> Annsan teased:
>> I thought it might be nice to discuss flower photography, Mike <g>
> Or cats. Don't forget cats. The world needs more cat pictures. Lord knows we
> haven't documented the confounded creatures nearly enough already. There's
> work yet to be done. Apart from the fact that some are slightly bigger and
> some are slightly smaller, and they come in about six different colors, they
> all look the same, and they all act exactly the same, and none of them are
> even remotely any more interesting than any of the rest. Yet, half the
> population thinks that all any insipid snap has to show is a cat and voil�,
> it's Art. "Like this one? Isn't that a nice cat? Isn't that a beautiful
> cat?" It's a cat. It looks like a cat. All cats look like cats. I've never
> seen a cat that didn't look just like a cat. I'll bet I've seen two hundred
> thousand cat pictures in my life. The most disturbing thing about that to me
> is that five or six of them were actually kinda good. I'd almost rather look
> at pictures of rocks, which is another of those enticing subjects people
> can't seem to resist. Have we done a cat PUG yet? I'll give a free
> subscription to my newsletter to the person who posts the best cat picture.
> Yes, show me flower pictures, cat pictures, sunsets--I can take it all day
> long. I've been in this business a while, you know.
> Conversely, I have rather a weakness for pictures of kids, waterfowl, and
> trees. So I guess nobody's perfect.
> --Mike
> P.S. I'm not a cat-hater. A cat-picture-hater, well, the jury's still out on
> that, but I'm just talking about the pictures.
> P.P.S. Maybe we could do another poll. Which totally clich�d subject really
> rubs you the wrong way? Which one do you have a weakness for, despite your
> better judgment?
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