Comments interspersed below.

Kenneth Waller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Were You Trying to Say?


> Well, of course I'm saying something with a photograph.  Sometimes I
> communicate better or more effectively that way than in other ways -
> that's the whole point, right?

No argument there.

>
> What irks me, is someone asking me what I'm trying to say.

Why? I ask in an attempt to try to understand the image, generally means I 
didn't get what the image was about.
I understand some might be baiting by asking "what are you trying to say"

>
> It's in the photograph.  That's what the photograph is for:  to
> communicate something that's otherwise difficult to simply communicate
> in few words - if at all.
>
> So chances are if someone asks me what I'm trying to say, I honestly
> can't answer them.

Nothing wrong with that at all. We've all been there.
As you well know the image you (anyone) takes only has to satisfy the taker.

Kenneth Waller


6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In a message dated 6/28/2006 9:24:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Bingo!
>>
>> Very well put.
>>
>> Kenneth Waller
>>
>> =========
>> Ditto. Agree with the above and the below.
>>
>> Marnie aka Doe
>>
>>
>> ----- 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
>> >
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