> > How did Thomas Kinkade get into that list? > > And what great pictures has he painted? > > :-) > > cheers, > frank >
Pearls before swine! B > > > > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bob W <[email protected]> > Sent: March 14, 2012 3/14/12 > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: OT - Online critics > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Daniel J. Matyola > > > > In a recent thread, many sharply criticized one of the most famous > > images of AA. Is HCB such a god that he is beyond criticism? > > > > Dan > > No, but knowing that well-informed and respectable people like > something that we think is bleh should probably give us pause for > thought and make us wonder why the picture is so well thought of, and > why & how that person became well-known in the first place. > > If we don't see what all the fuss is about then rather than dismissing > it as pretentious nonsense, as so many os us do, perhaps we should be a > little more humble and consider that maybe we don't know how to look at > a picture, whether it's by Picasso, HCB, Ansel Adams or Thomas Kinkade, > and perhaps we should be doing something to find out why the picture is > considered great. > > We never know, it might even improve we's own picture-making. > > I mean taking. > > B > > > -- > 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.
