USE THE FORCE, FRANK.
Tom C. >From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Pentax Gallery "Resignation" >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:07:05 +0100 > > > How can I aim for a target if I can't see it? > >You must follow the Way Of The Blind Archer, grasshopper. The Blind >Archer does not see the target. He allows the target to see him, and >to guide the arrow into his heart, as the heron's beak enters the >stream. For are they not one, the archer, the target and the arrow? >Are they not avatars of each of us, and we of them? Your hand must not >know that it has released the bowstring, it must slip from you as >melting snow slips from the bamboo leaf. Then surely the bow, the >string, the arrow, the archer and the target are one. > >Hope that helps. > >-- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of frank theriault > > Sent: 27 September 2007 21:29 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: Pentax Gallery "Resignation" > > > > On 9/27/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Question: how subjective is this standard? > > > > > > Same as all competitions: Very. > > > > > > Personally, I quite like the Pentax Gallery kind of contest >because, > > > unlike other contests, I get to aim repeatedly at the same target > > > (acceptance into the Gallery, in this case). I may not > > agree with their > > > choices, but teaching myself (or trying to teach myself!) to >achieve > > > what they're after makes me push myself as a photographer. > > > > > > I find that creating works that please someone else is a lot more > > > demanding, tiring, frustrating and annoying than creating > > things that > > > please just myself. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. > > > > I think my problem with the Pentax Gallery is that I don't know what > > the standard is. How can I aim for a target if I can't see it? > > > > There's no explanation as to the criteria to get past the "accepted > > artists' voting": How many votes are required to be accepted or > > rejected? What percentage of "yes" votes is required for >acceptance? > > and even then, it states clearly that those that get past the first > > "screening" can be rejected outright by the Pentax Panel. We don't > > know who those people are, and what they're looking for. > > > > It's all very "closed door", which to me makes it something of a > > crap-shoot. I'm not sure how submitting many photos and having them > > all rejected makes me a better photographer. > > > > It rather just leaves me scratching my head, and thinking that if I > > want feedback or reaction, this isn't the place for me. Some may >find > > this sort of exercise very valuable, but I don't. > > > > I mean, hey, no hard feelings. Pentax can run this thing any way >they > > want; it's their contest. However, if this is the way they choose >to > > run it, my choice is to not participate. > > > > 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 > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > above and follow the directions. > > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
