Thanks, Frank --
keeps me from wasting time lookin :-)

ann

On 4/21/2012 06:20, [email protected] wrote:
I tried looking through the list when Dan first posted it a few days ago. I 
just couldn't get all the way through it (just as I can't today).

There's just way too much absolutely pretentious bullshit to wade through to 
get the odd little gem of wisdom. And to be honest, those gems are nothing new 
(he steals from Robert Capa fer gawd's sake!).

I couldn't get past 41 and 42.

Maybe it's because it sounds too much like the late Thomas Kinkade that it pisses me off, 
but photography does not mean "painting with light". Yes, learning to use light 
is very important, but that lead-in really turned me off.

And "finding your style and sticking with it" is the ~worst~ advice I've ever heard! How 
is anyone going to learn and grow as a photographer if one doesn't experiment, stretch, take 
chances and have fun with different genres (at least once in a while)? "Hey, there's a Little 
League baseball game down the street. I'd go shoot it, but I'm a nature photographer and I want to 
stick to my genre."

Geez, what an idiot!

I could go on but what's the use? Even when he's right what he says are like 
sound bites on the news. Without more information they're possibly useless or 
even dangerous (photograpically speaking).

That guy is so full of himself.

Sigh...

Cheers,
frank







"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- 
Christopher Hitchens

--- Original Message ---

From: Bruce Walker<[email protected]>
Sent: April 21, 2012 4/21/12
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT: 100 Things About Photography

101. There is much truth in this list.
102. There is much bullshit in this list.

Thanks for sharing, Dan

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
<[email protected]>  wrote:

http://www.bspcn.com/2012/04/16/100-things-about-photography/

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

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