Bingo! Very well put.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What Were You Trying to Say? > Of course you are saying something. You show your personal selection > of the world that passes by. You may not be able to put it into > words, but the message is there. This is what I choose to show you, > this is what I think is worth showing. > > DagT > > > Den 27. jun. 2006 kl. 18.55 skrev frank theriault: > >> Boris' recent PESO (or was it a PAW?) featured at least two questions >> along the lines of the above subject line. >> >> Which got me to thinking: What difference does it make? I very often >> take photos which, ~at the time I take them~, I have no idea "what I'm >> trying to say". I just take them, look at them later, and if I like >> them, I print them. >> >> Is that wrong? >> >> Why does no one ask that question when they see a gorgeous photo of an >> equally gorgeous sunset? What does a sunset have to "say" (except >> perhaps, "isn't this beautiful")? >> >> I'm not being critical of Boris' two questioners, or in any way >> implying that they ought not to have asked the questions, I just don't >> understand why I see it asked so often with regard to some >> photographs. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
