I also don't have any appetite for the bottomless
"life-is-horrible-and-these-B&W-prints-prove-it" genre.
Me three ! If you want some of that just turn your TV on.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Womer" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: watching vs. doing
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
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