Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-07-22 Thread wendy beard
Thanks Igor, This one: http://www.muddypawz.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/w1_100701_7D2042.jpg Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D Image Date: 2010:07:01 14:13:31 Focal Length: 200.0mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 0.0003 s (1/3200) ISO equiv: 500 This one:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-07-22 Thread Bruce Walker
wendy beard wrote: I don't update as much as I should, but I usually post the best shots from events. I'm pretty pleased with the latest set of dockdogs images http://www.muddypawz.net/blog Those are just *terrific*, Wendy! Love 'em all. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-07-21 Thread wendy beard
I don't update as much as I should, but I usually post the best shots from events. I'm pretty pleased with the latest set of dockdogs images http://www.muddypawz.net/blog personal site http://www.beard-redfern.com Wendy On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-07-21 Thread Igor Roshchin
Wendy, Some great photos are there! The first one is simply spectacular! If you don't mind, - what were the exposures for the 1st and the 3rd photos (with the jello-like frozen water)? Thanks for sharing! Igor Wed Jul 21 13:20:20 CDT 2010 wendy beard wrote: I don't update as much as I

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-07-13 Thread Bruce Walker
My so-called blog has evolved (devolved?) into a photoblog. Still the occasional other thing, but 98% images. No fixed posting schedule, and no promises either. Also, generally if a shot is good enough for me to blog, I PESO it here as well. Blog URL: http://nuspi.blogspot.com/ RSS:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-11 Thread Igor Roshchin
that it will be held against me.) Igor PS. To everybody on the list: please, do not be afraid to provide constructive critique for my photos - publicly or privately. On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:58 PM, William Robb wrote: -- From: Doug Brewer Subject: Re: Feed Us

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-06 Thread David Parsons
Check out www.photosig.com It's a critique site that is based on constructive critique of pictures, and other members can vote both the pictures and critiques as helpful or not. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Doug Franklin wrote:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:39 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 7/1/2010 6:00 PM, eckinator wrote: 2010/7/1 Tim Øslebymaritim...@gmail.com: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p Sure...

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Brian Walters
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:15 -0400, Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote: On 2010-07-01 18:31, Brian Walters wrote: Back on topic - the debate about 'no holds barred' critiques of images comes up regularly and never seems to get resolved. Surely if someone post an images and says

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread eckinator
2010/7/2 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: So the masochist says to the sadist: Hurt me, Hurt Me.  The sadist answers; No. Mark! Going by the bumper sticker rationale, not a Mark either, first heard that one in 1985

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread eckinator
2010/7/1 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: When I post something, I usually say that Comments, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are all Welcome, which is my way of saying please don't be kind.  I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps, so I've been abused by professionals; it is unlikely  

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Madame RD
Le 02/07/10 10:40, eckinator a écrit : 2010/7/1 Daniel J. Matyoladanmaty...@gmail.com: When I post something, I usually say that Comments, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are all Welcome, which is my way of saying please don't be kind. I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps, so I've been

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread eckinator
2010/7/2 Madame RD romd...@orange.fr: Inspiration, anyone? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81027441/ wish i'd had this one when I used to teach English ! just the kind of things you never find in regular textbooks though it might come in handy ; vice versa, a guy from

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Mark Roberts
Tom C wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: So the masochist says to the sadist: Hurt me, Hurt Me.  The sadist answers; No. Mark! Tom: Is P.J. a sadist? Mark: Beats me -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread P. J. Alling
On 7/2/2010 5:58 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/7/2 Madame RDromd...@orange.fr: Inspiration, anyone? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81027441/ wish i'd had this one when I used to teach English ! just the kind of things you never find in regular textbooks though it might come

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-07-02 8:43, P. J. Alling wrote: You can count to 10 in German and sound like you're cussing someone out. Some comedian, I can't remember who, used to compare French to German by saying that you can say anything in French and it sounds like love coos, and you can say anything in

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 2, 2010, at 1:40 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/7/1 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: When I post something, I usually say that Comments, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are all Welcome, which is my way of saying please don't be kind. I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps, so I've

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread eckinator
2010/7/2 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: One of my favorite lines, and one which was borrowed by Charlie Stross in Iron Sunrise was posted by Geoff Miller in alt.peeves: Come, Donnie-boy, let us retract the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-02 Thread William Robb
-- From: eckinator Subject: Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution perhaps we should just have a second list fla...@pdml.net so people could choose which way they want to go =) rule: post to pdml, if you criticize, respond to flames

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Malcolm Smith
William Robb wrote: Is one allowed to say: Is this the best you can do? Is one allowed to pass on his disappointment in the photographer? The Shel fiasco was more or less that. It may have gotten jacked past that, but my recollection is that it started out pretty much that way. Yes

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Christine Aguila
in making the photograph--more difficult when the photographer is less clear. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: William Robb war...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 1, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: It's always easier to accept honest feedback of others when the photographer been honest with him/herself about *both* the strengths and weaknesses of his/her own work. Moreover, the receiver of feedback is not without power

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Rick Womer
wrote: -- From: Rick Womer Subject: Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution Well said, Bill.  I would welcome more constructive commentary, as long as it is respectful.  That doesn't mean that a pile of dogshit is called a golden egg

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Tom C
William Robb wrote: Is one allowed to say: Is this the best you can do? Is one allowed to pass on his disappointment in the photographer? IMO, even that first question is negatively loaded because it's aimed at the photographer, not the image. It implies the photographer is unskilled,

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread eckinator
William Robb wrote: Is one allowed to say: Is this the best you can do? Context sensitive statement. If I give someone two free punches in a bar fight, it is mockery. If I know someone really well and have my arm around him it is encouragement. I think you are thinking along those lines.

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-07-01 8:35, Tom C wrote: William Robb wrote: Is one allowed to say: Is this the best you can do? Is one allowed to pass on his disappointment in the photographer? IMO, even that first question is negatively loaded because it's aimed at the photographer, not the image. I agree.

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
Like Bob, I try to look at most if not all of the images posted, although I comment only on a few. From the images I view I get two things that are important to me - a photographic learning experience based on what I like or what I think it would take to improve the image, and I can

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread eckinator
2010/7/1 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:34 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/6/30 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: It's simple. Your photos suck, but the rest of us rock.  But, we're nice folks, so we let you hang out in the hopes you learn how to use a camera. My thoughts

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread P. J. Alling
On 7/1/2010 1:11 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: Like Bob, I try to look at most if not all of the images posted, although I comment only on a few. From the images I view I get two things that are important to me - a photographic learning experience based on what I like or what I think it would take

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Adam Maas
This is why I post a large picture (no small thumbnails) and any writing below it on my photoblog. Check out the image, read the rest only if you're interested. Note that many photoblogs work this way or simply have large pictures with a short description. -Adam On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:35

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I, for one, would appreciate more negative comments on the images I post here. I post PESOs because I know that I'm not a very good photographer and I'm trying to improve. [While others here have hundreds of images accepted by Pentax, they have taken only 13 of the many I submitted, and I know

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-07-01 15:50, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: In any event, this list would be more useful to all of us -- especially the hacks like me -- if we were all a little more honest and a little more critical in our comments on images submitted to the group. I'll agree, if you'll change the word

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 1, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-07-01 15:50, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: In any event, this list would be more useful to all of us -- especially the hacks like me -- if we were all a little more honest and a little more critical in our comments on images submitted to

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread eckinator
2010/7/1 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: In any case, I think that such a group would be better if it weren't equipment specific, and that trying to foster that level of open discussion may not keep the PDML as warm and welcoming to newcomers.  We could try to be more straightforward when

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Tim Øsleby
Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/7/1 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: 2010/7/1 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: In any case, I think

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread eckinator
2010/7/1 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p Sure... sticks and stones will break my bones but whips and chains excite me =) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Brian Walters
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00 +0200, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/1 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p Sure... sticks and stones will

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. It takes a special kind of person to use cormorant as their safe word. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p Why do you think that it's

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread eckinator
2010/7/2 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: It takes a special kind of person to use cormorant as their safe word. oh totally but can you envision yourself saying aperture simulator while heading up the creek? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-07-01 17:25, Larry Colen wrote: I've seen a few too many examples of people who have just learned that changing aperture would affect the depth of field pontificating Have you been reading KR's web site again? :-) It would be nice if such a group existed, but like most idealistic

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-07-01 18:31, Brian Walters wrote: Back on topic - the debate about 'no holds barred' critiques of images comes up regularly and never seems to get resolved. Surely if someone post an images and says comments, suggestions, criticisms welcome (or something similar), we are entitled to

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Tom C
I'd say Bill. Tom C. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:01 PM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/2 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: It takes a special kind of person to use cormorant as their safe word. oh totally but can you envision yourself saying aperture simulator while heading up the

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread P. J. Alling
On 7/1/2010 6:00 PM, eckinator wrote: 2010/7/1 Tim Øslebymaritim...@gmail.com: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough critique ;-p Sure... sticks and stones will break my bones but whips and

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread P. J. Alling
On 7/1/2010 6:31 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00 +0200, eckinatoreckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/1 Tim Øslebymaritim...@gmail.com: Cormorant could work as a magic stop code, unless the motif is a cormorant. How about SM as an acronym for people who wants rough

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread P. J. Alling
On 7/1/2010 9:11 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-07-01 17:25, Larry Colen wrote: I've seen a few too many examples of people who have just learned that changing aperture would affect the depth of field pontificating Have you been reading KR's web site again? :-) Oh, please. KR hasn't

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-07-01 Thread Tom C
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: So the masochist says to the sadist: Hurt me, Hurt Me.  The sadist answers; No. Mark! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Rob Studdert
On 30/06/2010, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: This is something currently on my mind. I wrote this reply about ten times and deleted it again. In a nutshell I would love for the etiquette of this list to make room for more critical comments, I rarely see anyone saying an image doesn't

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I'm manly lurking... real life at the moment is complicated enough... (including a dead keyboard for a bit) but I'm hopping on to second Doug Franklin's approach... having been around in the days of Shel, Dobo, Mafud and the like when nastiness took up too much space . I prefer email from the

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Tom C
I confess having some difficulty with blogs. I wasn't going to say it, but since you broached it. I don't really want to do all the reading that a blog presumes I do, and I don't like clicking on the inevitable thumbnail in the blog to get to the larger version of an image. I find most blogs

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread P. J. Alling
Shouldn't that /womanly/ lurking... On 6/30/2010 11:16 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I'm manly lurking... real life at the moment is complicated enough... (including a dead keyboard for a bit) but I'm hopping on to second Doug Franklin's approach... having been around in the days of Shel, Dobo,

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:35:28AM -0400, Tom C wrote: I confess having some difficulty with blogs. . . . And finally maybe, somewhat rudely, but not intended so, I find a blog a bit akin to watching someone's home movies. They tend to mean much more to the creator than to the audience . . .

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Bruce Dayton
, June 30, 2010 8:35 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution I confess having some difficulty with blogs. I wasn't going to say it, but since you broached it. I don't really want to do all the reading that a blog presumes I do, and I don't

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Doug Brewer
Tom C wrote: I confess having some difficulty with blogs. I wasn't going to say it, but since you broached it. I don't really want to do all the reading that a blog presumes I do, and I don't like clicking on the inevitable thumbnail in the blog to get to the larger version of an image. I find

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread P N Stenquist
A large part of my daily work consists of writing blog entries for various clients. Don't plan on doing more of that for entertainment. PESOs are fine by me. Paul On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I'm manly lurking... real life at the moment is complicated enough...

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Tom C
And just to circle back... :-) If you (the royal you) want me to look at an image, I'd prefer it to be introduced as a list post as opposed to imbedded in a blog. My personal preference of course. Tom On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: Tom C wrote: I

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Bruce Dayton bkday...@daytonphoto.com wrote: Well Tom, you have worded my feelings exactly.  Blogging and twitter just seem like so much information I don't want to hear about.  I don't have enough time as it is to want to sift through all the 'noise' to

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Tom C
Well I find it pretty easy to filter the PDML noise. If the subject line doesn't interest me I delete it. The blog though, makes me click on the link and see the text of the blog. I'm not making a big deal of it, I just overall am not enamored with the whole blog concept, twitter, Facebook, etc.

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: The blog though, makes me click on the link and see the text of the blog. No, that's the whole point of a feed reader. To aggregate the text and photos from any number of blogs and other sources into one place. If someone posts

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Tom C
And what about the text blog? On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: The blog though, makes me click on the link and see the text of the blog. No, that's the whole point of a feed reader.  To

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: And what about the text blog? I don't understand the question. I thought we were talking about photography. If you subscribe to a blog that's mostly textual, the text appears in your feed reader. (Some blogs publish the whole

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Tom C
My main malfunction (on this topic at least) is that I prefer not to see the text and general confusion I find associated with many blogs(in general). It wasn't that I wanted to aggregate the contents of blogs all into one spot, or that clicking to see an image is much of a problem, it's more

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-06-30 Thread DagT
Not really a blog as I don´t write anything, and also I guess you already know about it as I annoy you with the PAW every week, but the link is in the signature. .-) DagT http://www.thrane.name Den 28. juni 2010 kl. 21.32 skrev John Celio: Traffic's been kinda slow lately, so I figure now

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: My main malfunction (on this topic at least) is that I prefer not to see the text and general confusion I find associated with many blogs(in general). Fair enough, I just see that as being orthogonal to the mechanism of delivery

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
P. J. Alling wrote: Shouldn't that /womanly/ lurking... hehe I didnt get that until I re-read what I wrote but. Shouldn't that be? / Shouldn't that be ?/womanly/lurking ?? :-0 ann On 6/30/2010 11:16 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I'm manly lurking... real life at the moment is

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Jun 29, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Rick Womer wrote: That is an interesting subject, but the photo would be better if you included the subject's head, had him in focus, and reduced the exposure by 2 stops or so. Mark -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread John Celio
I much prefer a single link to an image, or a gallery of thumbnails, as opposed to an image thumbnail surrounded by a lot of text. If you'd taken a look at the links people have provided so far, you'd have noticed that none of them present images as thumbnails, and most of them don't require

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-30 13:57 , John Celio wrote: Blog: a frequently-updated website featuring lots of text about whatever topic the blog covers (be it politics, sports, or the author's growing collection of fruit bat stool samples). May include photos, videos or other media, but is mainly text. this

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread P. J. Alling
Whats a verb or two between friends. On 6/30/2010 3:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: Shouldn't that /womanly/ lurking... hehe I didnt get that until I re-read what I wrote but. Shouldn't that be? / Shouldn't that be ?/womanly/lurking ?? :-0 ann On 6/30/2010

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-30 Thread William Robb
-- From: Rick Womer Subject: Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution Well said, Bill. I would welcome more constructive commentary, as long as it is respectful. That doesn't mean that a pile of dogshit is called a golden egg, it just means

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
http://eckinator.posterous.com for now =) cheers ecke 2010/6/28 John Celio n...@neovenator.com: Traffic's been kinda slow lately, so I figure now is the time to post something like this: If you've got a photoblog, post your blog's URL and RSS feed URL (if you have one).  Feel free to

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Rick Womer
It can be hard to keep up with the PDML. How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? Ecke has some great shots up that have never been PESOs. Under normal circumstances I would have missed them completely. How does one share comments

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
2010/6/29 Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com: Ecke has some great shots up that have never been PESOs.  Under normal circumstances I would have missed them completely. Thank you Rick, I'll post everything once I get the hang of posterous and once I'm comfortable with my selections. Cheers Ecke

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: It can be hard to keep up with the PDML.  How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? With an RSS reader. I currently have 679 subscribed feeds in Google Reader.

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Bob Sullivan
679 feeds? Isn't list traffic bad enough? :-) Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: It can be hard to keep up with the PDML.  How is one supposed to check each of umpteen

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-06-29 Thread Christine Nielsen
http://www.crapmanagement.com/ I post a daily photo- plus just a little blah,blah,blah - on my blog... -c -- 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.

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Malcolm Smith
Matthew Hunt wrote: It can be hard to keep up with the PDML.  How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? With an RSS reader. I currently have 679 subscribed feeds in Google Reader. I wondered the same thing as Rick. Your reply

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
It's for times when the list is slow. Wouldn't want to be bored now would we? On 6/29/2010 9:03 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: 679 feeds? Isn't list traffic bad enough? :-) Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Matthew Huntm...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM,

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog

2010-06-29 Thread Adam Maas
http://www.mawz.ca RSS is linked from there. Always a photo, often some gear-related musings. It's mostly shot with Minolta kit these days, but the glass is often Takumars. -Adam On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: Traffic's been kinda slow lately, so I

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-29 07:03 , Bob Sullivan wrote: 679 feeds? Isn't list traffic bad enough? :-) i have a similar quantity in my newsreader; good software makes it possible to pick and choose what to read; i scan a lot of headlines in my reader, but read relatively few articles -- PDML

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-29 06:16 , Rick Womer wrote: How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? that's what a news reader is for; lots of people use Google Reader; i use free Mac software called NetNewsWire it might be interesting to create a

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
i know posterous has an autopost feature that lets me push all my posts to a lot of other sites as well as twitter alternatively, there could just be a pdml-owned posterous/or any other blog that supports this feature/ where active list members can be added as contributors cheers ecke 2010/6/29

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-29 11:11 , eckinator wrote: i know posterous has an autopost feature that lets me push all my posts to a lot of other sites as well as twitter alternatively, there could just be a pdml-owned posterous/or any other blog that supports this feature/ where active list members can be added

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:33 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: however it doesn't seem to sort by latest published; maybe its better when this page in turn is subscribed to by RSS (which i can't seem do, perhaps because my reader is in turn synced to Google Reader) I subscribed to it

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
2010/6/29 Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com: I've tried a quick test using Yahoo Pipes, which seems like a good tool for this.  It has 3 RSS sources for testing:  My own Flickr photostream, and the photoblogs of John Celio and Mr. Eckinator.  The three sources are combined with a union operator,

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
Come to think of it this idea of having one PDML blog hub is even more brilliant since you wouldn't have to be a member of all kinds of sites and networks any more. I am not good at maintaining all of these networks, I have a dead LinkedIn profile, a dead Xing profile, a dead MySpace account, a

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread John Celio
It can be hard to keep up with the PDML. How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? Rick, the whole idea of an RSS reader is to collect all the blogs (and other frequently-updated sites) you read into one central location. I follow

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
2010/6/29 John Celio n...@neovenator.com: I don't post PESOs very often because I pretty much lurk here all the time.  It doesn't seem fair to ask people for comments on my photos when I almost never comment on anyone else's. This is something currently on my mind. I wrote this reply about

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-29 12:58 , Matthew Hunt wrote: The pipe overview page is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a2521ccc1cd0ae6146b25b4cbbe1244d The associated RSS feed is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a2521ccc1cd0ae6146b25b4cbbe1244d_render=rss good call on using Yahoo Pipes!

RE: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Malcolm Smith
Hi Ecke, This is something currently on my mind. I wrote this reply about ten times and deleted it again. In a nutshell I would love for the etiquette of this list to make room for more critical comments, I rarely see anyone saying an image doesn't work but I do see an enormous difference in

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: It can be hard to keep up with the PDML.  How is one supposed to check each of umpteen photo blogs every day to see if they've been updated? Ecke has some great shots up that have never been PESOs.  Under normal

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
I hear you Malcolm, ty for letting me know. Too bad though... Ecke 2010/6/29 Malcolm Smith malcolmsmi...@btinternet.com: Hi Ecke, This is something currently on my mind. I wrote this reply about ten times and deleted it again. In a nutshell I would love for the etiquette of this list to make

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
Is falk lumo a lurker on this list? i read the name a few times back during the k-7 discussions but don't remember seeing a single post here so i am a little surprised to see him in that pipes page cheers ecke 2010/6/29 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: On 2010-06-29 12:58 , Matthew Hunt wrote:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Tim Øsleby
What happened to Shel? His comments could be hard to take, but I miss them. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/6/29 Malcolm Smith malcolmsmi...@btinternet.com: Hi Ecke, This is something currently on my mind. I wrote this reply about ten times and deleted it again. In a

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-06-29 16:15, eckinator wrote: In a nutshell I would love for the etiquette of this list to make room for more critical comments, I rarely see anyone saying an image doesn't work[...] I'll praise a photo in public, but if I'm going to criticize it more than a little, I'll typically do

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread eckinator
2010/6/29 Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com: I'll praise a photo in public, but if I'm going to criticize it more than a little, I'll typically do it privately by direct email. Whenever you see fit in my case, please by all means do. Thanks Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Tim Øsleby
I can see why you do Doug. But don't you think others could learn from those honest comments? In other words: Please feel free to criticise me in public. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/6/29 Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com: On 2010-06-29 16:15, eckinator wrote:

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-06-29 17:22, Tim Øsleby wrote: I can see why you do Doug. But don't you think others could learn from those honest comments? Yes, learning can surely occur in these situations, with some caveats (lots of open minds, civility by all parties, ...). Unfortunately, I've seen it devolve

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Problem

2010-06-29 Thread steve harley
On 2010-06-29 15:15 , eckinator wrote: Is falk lumo a lurker on this list? heh - probably not, i just looked through my photo-related blogs for names i recognized or mentions of pentax; i'll take it off -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread Rick Womer
--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote: I'll praise a photo in public, but if I'm going to criticize it more than a little, I'll typically do it privately by direct email. It's all in how it's done. Incorrect: That photo is a steaming dungheap so foul that even

Re: Feed Us Your Photoblog--The Solution

2010-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
He has heath issues. On 6/29/2010 5:18 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: What happened to Shel? His comments could be hard to take, but I miss them. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/6/29 Malcolm Smithmalcolmsmi...@btinternet.com: Hi Ecke, This is something currently on

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