Rick Womer wrote: > Scott, > > As you say, there is a lot of overlap; too much to be > really stimulating, I think. Nature, Landscape, > Macro, Synchronicity all tend in the same direction. > Then there's "Red shirt"?!?! > > Rick
Thanks, Rick. I think a little overlap isn't necessarily bad. Unless one had a model train set with real plants, it would awfully hard to satisfy nature, landscape and macro with one photograph. But perhaps we could turn them into two themes instead of three. Nature/landscapes and macro/close up. These allow quite a lot of interpretation within the same theme while not limiting participation due to a lack of specialty lenses. Same for fashion/glamour and portraits. I have a feeling, though, that combining them into simply a portrait theme would probably leave us without too much fashion and glamour. I like fashion and glamour. Especially with long legs. As for "Red shirt", I thought you would know about that one. Look it up. <g> I guess we need a couple more themes. I'll dig some more. How does aerial photography sound to everyone? Seriously, Bill laid it out rather plainly during a previous discussion of PUG themes, and I'm trying to abide: William Robb wrote: > The PUG is supposed to be as inclusive a gallery as possible. This means > that themes should be doable with fairly basic equipment, and that the > subject shouldn't be exclusive to certain parts of the world. > > William Robb I think the themes thus far adhere to that philosophy rather well, allowing much more liberal interpretation than "flower" or "Halloween". > > --- Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've put together a list of 12 themes for 2008. >> I've tried to stay away >> from the more abstract themes and focus more on >> photographic genres, in >> hopes that some of us will actually go try something >> new. The list with >> notes (not in order, necessarily): >> >> Documentary/photojournalism >> >> 'Tis the season - I thought February would be a good >> month, allowing >> plenty of time to go through your >> Christmas/Festivus/New Year/whatever >> photos. >> >> Fashion/glamour >> >> Portrait >> >> Photowalking - you guys are good at this, so it's >> pretty much a done >> deal. :-P >> >> Macro/close-up >> >> Red shirt >> >> Landscape >> >> Nature >> >> Equinox/synchronicity (x2) - I thought it would be >> nice to do this >> twice, but I'm open to other suggestions. The >> equinox is near the end >> of March and September, putting some serious time >> constraints on those >> of us with other things to do. Having the relevant >> PUGs in May and >> November would give everyone ample time to edit. >> >> Etc.... - Yes, this is a theme. Walt Hamler >> proposed it and several >> people said something like "Cool!" Basically, one >> month devoted to >> whatever the hell you feel like shooting. A >> Super-PESO, if you will. >> >> As you can see, there is quite some overlap of >> themes, such as nature, >> macro and landscape, for example. I would expect >> nothing less than a >> very liberal interpretation from this group. >> >> This list is not concrete, obviously, so I'd >> appreciate your thoughts. >> >> >> -- >> Scott Loveless >> http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- 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.
