I don't know, I find my stuff is often ignored, which may be just as well. Tom C wrote: > Granted, everyone has their own taste and I can't, nor do I want to, change > that. However, I and several others tend to find the list is often too > self-congratulatory. > > Almost every single photo shown here meets with praise. That tends to > diminish the value of truly well-deserved praise, and to some degree it does > the photographer a disservice. > > Some photos are failures (yes there is alway subjectivity), and to tell the > photographer otherwise sends the wrong signals. We don't need to do it in a > discourteous manner, but we often learn as much or more from failures as we > do from successes. D or C-grade work should not be given an A-grade, > otherwise what incentive will there be for improvement? When the mechanism > that could enable someone to improve is out of order, what then? > > Tom C. > > > >> From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Re: >> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:23:28 -0700 (PDT) >> >> The was, in some unique way, especially meaningful to one viewer. That >> doesn't, necessarily, validate it to anyone else. >> I think that's what every photographer and viewer has to realize. >> >> Jack >> >> --- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> What? Is Godfrey in a 3rd grade photography? :-) Sorry to appear >>> rude. >>> >>> What is good about this picture? I don't find anything appealing >>> about it. >>> I don't see that it took any more effort than haphazardly raising the >>> camera >>> to one's eye and pressing the shutter release, maybe not even looking >>> >>> through the viewfinder. >>> >>> Not only is the main subject not in clear focus, the secondary >>> subject is >>> not either, and both are cut off. I'm not a believer that some sort >>> of >>> unspoken social commentary, makes a photograph a good photograph. >>> >>> If this is the kind of image that constitutes an incredible >>> photograph, then >>> by God, every person that ever picked up a camera and pressed the >>> shutter >>> release a half dozen times is a good photographer, and we should all >>> stop >>> trying. >>> >>> Tom C. >>> >>> >On 08/05/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> I missed this as well. Beautifully captured. Very moving. >>>>> Paul >>>>> On May 7, 2007, at 5:50 PM, frank theriault wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 5/5/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/22.htm >>>>>>>>> >>>>>> I missed this first time 'round. >>>>>> >>>>>> In incredible photograph. >>>>>> >>>>>> Just incredible... >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Never miss an email again! >> Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. >> http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > >
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