One final minor Peter Lik comment; I doubt he completed a sentence during his Weather Channel photo series that didn't include the fillers, "bloody" &/or "mate."
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "knarftheria...@gmail.com" <knarftheria...@gmail.com> To: ""Pentax-Discuss Mail List"" <pdml@pdml.net> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:43 PM Subject: Re: OT - Online critics I have lots of problems with this guy and his photos. Let me start by saying that I don't know what "art" is, but when the word "fine" is put in front of it, it usually ain't. My biggest problem is that everything is larger than life. His descriptions of the hardships he endures to get the perfect photo, his description of the photos and the photos themselves. It's all hyper-real, more than I can take. Plus, he used the word "zen" apparently without irony. Need I say more? I know that we all bump up the saturation a bit for a beautiful sunset or whatever. But this guy is way ott. I won't mention names because I'm bound to forget someone, but there are a dozen or more photographers here whose landscapes blow this guy out of the water. What he's doing isn't bad but it's not great either. It strikes me that he's pandering to his audience (said audience no doubt determined by a market survey) and when that happens often "art" somehow gets lost along the way. His stuff (to me) is the photographic equivalent of velvet paintings of clowns and puppies with big eyes, Andre Rieux or Nora Roberts. Or Thomas Kinkaid. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> Sent: March 15, 2012 3/15/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: OT - Online critics On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:17 PM, <kwal...@peoplepc.com> <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > I had never heard of him until a recent series about his photographic trips > on the Weather channel. > > He comes across as bigger than life, a little too aninmated but I think his > photos speak for them self. I saw a couple episodes of his show. The guy makes me seem humble. He talks about the difficulty of hauling his SLR out to where ever, and there's the cameraman videotaping him rappelling down the cliff. But, they don't mention that. All the video is just as impressive as the stills they flash. To be honest, the guy isn't a bad photographer, he just is nowhere near as good of a photographer as he is a publicist. With his salesmanship skills, even I could make a comfortable living at photography. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
