Hot Damn,
I made the list.
It's out of context but it's funnier that way, isn't it?
CW
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From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Finally: 2005 PDML Quotations
Sorry this is a couple of days late. I just got back from a long New
Year's weekend in NC. Long list this year. Probably because I kept
getting suggestions from so many people ("Mark!")
So without further ado, and in mostly-chronological order (starting with
the most recent and going back to the oldest), here it is:
"Moments of delirious personal satisfaction are the engines of effort."
- Jack Davis
"It is just what ever is in front of the camera that I want to look at
again... "
- Ann Sanfedele
"Speaking of film, I had to move some out of the way to get to the
Hershey Bars in the fridge last night."
- Doug Brewer
"I've spent so much of my life working in amateur photofinishing,
nothing really bothers me anymore."
- William Robb
"Thanks Mark, Bob, Shel, Fred and to a lesser extent, Frank<g>"
- Dave Brooks
"I'm drinking coffee, and smoking legal stuff. I've just got a sick mind
;-)"
- Tim Øsleby
"'Vague' is my only reality."
- Jack Davis
"Fun is important to me."
- Fred
"If you get the best scan, the rest of the image editing is easier. If
you get the image processed nicely, the printing is easier."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"What I'm good at is holding the camera steady while continuing a
conversation."
- Cotty
"The vast majority of photographers never exploit the full capabilities
of their equipment."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"The successful photographer is the prepared photographer."
- Doug Brewer
"I hope my work is never judged by the type of camera I use to produce
it."
- Paul Stenquist
"It's making the mundane things in this world come to life that makes
good photography stand up to be counted... "
- Keith W
"There are no rules in photography, just preferences."
- Cotty
"Don't underestimate morale!"
- John Forbes
"90% of everything is off-topic."
- Cotty
"I mostly have manual focus lenses; the rest I focus by hand."
- Bob Walkden
"It wants me to log in, and doesn't offer the choice of a 'Get Stuffed'
button."
- Bob Walkden
"I have a 50 roll per year Ektachrome habit"
- Rick Womer
"You do the fatal mistake of equaling your esotetric, (lunatic) fringe
interest with interest of average buyers.
- Pål Jensen
"He makes the Amish look positively groovy."
- John Forbes
"People don't want the actual gear the pros use, they just want the same
brand name emblazoned on whatever they can afford to buy."
- Cotty
"Art happens..."
- P. J. Alling
"(Macromedia) Flash is a problem masquerading as a solution."
- John Forbes
"I see more signs and portents in the detritus on the sidewalk than in
the newspaper."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"Get something you can enjoy and start enjoying it now. Life is too
short..."
- Bob Sullivan
"Surely nobody here goes anywhere without a camera ..."
- ERN Reed
"I don't really care what the galleries call them, so long as they
*sell* them!"
- Bob Shell
"It is very easy to manufacture 'problems' via unreasonable amounts of
scrutinization."
- William Robb
"I thought I saw some of Frank's stuff, but it turned out to be only
HCB."
- Unca Mikey
"Fun makes great photography"
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"Prophets of the One True Way just show they are stuck in a limited
rut."
- John Francis
"If he's saying that *one* can only capture that kind of image with the
equipment he is advocating, he is wrong. If he's saying that *he* can
only capture that kind of image with the specific equipment, maybe he's
right!"
- ERN Reed
"Most images don't deserve to live as long as the medium."
- William Robb
"It looked like an ordinary bottle of water. But it was on a plinth!"
- Wayne Hill
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4718573.stm)
"Brute force *is* an option!"
- Alan P. Hayes
"My pictures are improving all the time but my percentage of keepers is
about the same. As I improve, I become harder to please. My bad pictures
are now better than my previous good ones."
- Tom Reese
"I don't know if digital has made me a better photographer, but in many
situations it has improved my results."
- Paul Stenquist
"I'm working from memory, so anything I write is meaningless."
- Mike Wilson
"Back then, as I recall it, I was only interested in capturing images. I
used what I had, no matter what it was, and did the best job I could."
- keith_w
"Putting blind faith in a light meter guarantees non-repeatable
results."
- William Robb
"Dust has been haunting me since I started photography in 1968."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"If you don't have women about, go to the camera clinic at GFM and get
one from Mark Roberts."
- Cory Waters
"Technology comes to help you, but not to replace your brains with some
electronic appendage."
- Boris Liberman
"Every lens I've bought in the last year has a purpose"
- Amita Guha
"Oh heck, set the little round thingy to the little green thingy and go
take some pics!"
- Don Sanderson
"The most pimptastic lens I have right now is a M50/1.4"
- Jon Myers
"Anything more than 100 yards from the car isn't photogenic when I carry
the 6x7"
- Lewis Matthew
"For those who still think that the marketplace should determine what is
good art, I have just two words - Andy Warhol."
- Bob Blakely
"If you shoot wide enough you might be able to crop *something* decent
out of it!"
- Jerome Reyes
"As for Cotty, I have no idea what he's talking about."
- Frank Theriault. (And everyone else, at one time or another...)
"Duh, that's obvious. It would be a doggone architectural street
portraiture. Well... that is, unless it was taken with extention tubes.
Then it would be a macro shot."
- Jerome Reyes
"Colour perception, like all perceptions, is subjective. Colour accuracy
is not."
- William Robb
"A little paranoia is good. A lot makes life hell."
- Graywolf
"Ann probably saved Frank's life by making me a sandwich."
- William Robb
"(Mark Roberts and Doug Brewer) have a future on the Comedy Channel."
- Tom Reese
"Dave (Brooks) looks like a burnt-out hippy, and Frank (Theriault) looks
like a burnt-out beatnik. Together they look like a Mutt & Jeff version
of Cheech & Chong."
- Graywolf
"Doug Brewer is the brother I never wanted."
- Cesar Matamoros
"Sometimes I try to paddle upstream, other times I just get the hell out
of the water and hike."
- Glenn Murphy
"Your 'other equipment'-to-big-lens ratio should be at least 4:1 in
weight and 3:1 in $$$ spent."
- Tom Reese
"It has a cat in it. That means it is art. A cat in B&W is fine art."
- David Mann
"Interesting article. I understood every word. I just don't know what
they mean when they're put together that way."
- Frank Theriault
"If someone shares a good shot, I'd rather give at least 99% of the
credit to the shooter rather than the equipment."
- Unca Mikey
"Stop thinking of it as 'the digital stuff' and think of it simply as
photography."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"If you're gonna stuff a sock in your drawers, you probably ought to
make sure nobody's gonna call you on it."
- Doug Franklin
"Film may be dead, but it is still available."
- Cesar Matamoros
"Even the lowest of the low have standards!"
- Cotty (Who should know!)
"A bit unsettling at first, but pretty cool!"
- Frank Theriault
"I can't fathom why people seem to want to complain about things
constantly. I prefer to take what is offered, discover what it does
well, and exploit it to maximum advantage rather than complain about
'what might be'."
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
"Some of us pride ourselves in not saying much of relevance"
- Marnie
"It ain't fun but it usually ain't fatal"
- Rick Womer
"If lenses can be classed as cool, the A*85mm f/1.4 would be frozen
solid."
- Cotty
"Bald may be beautiful, but I've bought a fedora anyway."
- Don Nelson
"The 'golden days' don't involve postage stamp sized negatives mounted
to girly toy cameras."
- William Robb
"They are YOUR pictures. You're certainly entitled to want them. Even to
want them really, really badly."
- ERN Reed
"Yes I know I'm evil, but hell, it pays the bills."
- Peter J. Alling
"Thanks for any answers, especially those related to my question ;-)"
- Pancho Hasselbach
"I can't find the blocks of wood with two crocodile clips screwed to
them. Did they migrate to Bede?"
- Mike Wilson
"This speaks to the difference between a real photographer who is in the
business of selling pictures, and those who magnify their images to 200%
on monitor and complain that there is artifacting."
- William Robb
"Thanks for the warm, if randomly tangential, welcome."
- Will Dimmit
"Substandard and proud of it."
- Cotty
"You can never have too many lenses."
- William Robb
"Taking photographic advice from a web page chosen based on popularity
is like taking cooking advice from a McDonalds."
- John Francis
"This comment is not designed to add useful discourse."
- William Robb
"It doesn't matter how many megapixels you have. A crap picture is still
crap."
- David S.
"Looks like he spends all day stapling Kleenex together..."
- Bob Walkden
"Feel free to comment, even before looking at the picture!"
- Juan Buhler
"It is art, and if the rules were so well defined then I'd be doing
something else."
- Juan Buhler
"In many ways professional photography is only tangentially about actual
photography."
- edwin
"Quotable quotes usually have little technical content."
- Herb Chong
"Hibble bibble bobble bibble bop. Gubble gobble gabble gip. Mibble
mobblemabble mup."
- Cotty
"This is an auction we are talking about. All it takes is 2 people
salivating enough."
- Kostas Kavoussanakis
"I don't expect the AF to be perfect. It is a tool just like the light
meter. Used in a smart fashion, it can be very helpful. Heavily relying
on it instead of your photographic skills can cause you to end up with
an image you didn't intend."
- Bruce Dayton
"Just because someone says something is not working properly doesn't
mean it's not working properly."
- Cotty
"I'm nothing if not obscure..."
- Peter J. Alling
"Laser-printed ASCII art just has no soul"
- Marnie AKA Doe
"unsubscribe"
- Traditional
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Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
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