2011/3/13 Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com>: > On 3/11/2011 8:52 AM, AlunFoto wrote: >> >> Interesting essay. >> On one hand he advocates not to persist at something you're not good >> at, in order to spend time doing things that brings you more sense of >> achiement. On the other hand, all his examples revolve around monetary >> reward as the sole gauge of achievement. >> >> Shoots his own logic in the foot, in my opinion. >> >> Jostein > > Jostein, are you trying to say that basically one has to have criteria for > everything
No. > Looks a bit like an egg and a turkey kind of question. So, I take snow > scenes pictures (well, I don't, but just to flow with the underlying motif) > and it does not come out right. Do I have to keep taking them? No. > Well, may be, > if I know that throughout the year (provided, I am not living in one season > over whole year climate zone) I take other pictures, say of similar grand > motif, a.k.a. landscape and they turn out good. May be I just enjoy the > process of shooting out in the cold snowy weather. Exactly. > They may not sell, I may > delete them afterwards... Am I actually trying to compete face to face with > well known and established artists of the genre? No. > Or perhaps I am missing the point entirely here... With that kind of argumentation, I'd say you stopped just short of repeating my point. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
