I love looking at good photos (and even my own photos occasionally). I've gone well out of my way to see exhibits several times.
Unfortunately, much of what is hanging on gallery walls should just be composted. I also don't have any appetite for the bottomless "life-is-horrible-and-these-B&W-prints-prove-it" genre. I work in the midst of suffering, and I enjoy photography that shows that there is beauty in the world, too. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: watching vs. doing > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 4:31 AM > The discussion of auto racing legends, has brought to mind > another way > in which I'm probably pretty weird, I've never > really understood > spectating. > > My bank account, or lack thereof, stands as testament to my > being a > bigger racing fanatic than the vast majority of race fans. > LBA is > cheap compared to racing. Yet, I have hardly ever watched a > complete > race on TV, and have only gone to the track to spectate a > few times. > > My interest in stick and ball games is practically nil, and > my > interest in watching them probably surpasses my interest in > watchng > paint dry. > > The weird thing is that this even extends to photography. I > love to > take pictures, I love to process them, I even enjoy showing > them > off. If someone says, "here, look at my picture", > I'll happilly do so, > and can even enjoy a particularly nice one. But, it's > not something > that I generally go out of my way to do, apart from the > educational > benefit of learning from other people's work. > > I wonder how many other photographers love to take and > create photos, > but don't have a lot of interest in looking at them, > even their own, > once they're done. > > -- > It's not the steps in the dance, it's the > dance in the steps. > Larry Colen [email protected] > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
