Well said, Marnie. This format obviously wouldn't permit it, but I'd find it fascinating to have blind critiques wherein the photographer's name was not reveled for a period of time. Personal "messages" might then not be couched in a critique. It's unrealistic, IMO, to believe that those few do not exist.
Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can remember WR saying it. Maybe not the exact word, crap, but if > not, > close to it. And maybe the exact word. Personally, I would prefer > that no one ever > tell anyone else their work is crap. If you really hate it, don't > comment, or > say it doesn't do anything for you. I don't think we need to go so > far as to > out and out and deliberately hurt someone's feelings. For most of us, > this is > just a hobby anyway. And there enough crap labeling in real life and > the > business world, so we don't really need to do it here. Reining in > bile is better. > > I felt, Shel, OTOH, your comments to John were a little harsh, > because he did > show technical skill in his shot, if not inventiveness. And it was a > technical skill not everyone can show. But I don't remember you > calling it crap. > > Marnie :-) > =========== > > In a message dated 10/9/2006 5:22:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I wracked my brain on that, and I couldn't recall you ever saying > that. > You've come close, I know that, and you ripped me a new aperture with > a > caustic comment about one of my pics, but I couldn't recall you using > the > word crap specifically. There's only one person here that I now > recall > for sure who has called someone's photo crap, but on one at least one > level > I discount most anything he says. > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: William Robb > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > > Subject: Re: PESO: Harvest Moon > > > > > > > Did _anyone_ say John's photo was crap? Did anyone say > > > anyone's photo was crap? > > > > I've called a few peoples photos crap.... > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
