[Tom C]

Granted, everyone has their own taste and I can't, nor do I want to, change 
that.  However, I and several others tend to find the list is often too 
self-congratulatory.

Almost every single photo shown here meets with praise.  That tends to 
diminish the value of truly well-deserved praise, and to some degree it does 
the photographer a disservice.

Some photos are failures (yes there is alway subjectivity), and to tell the 
photographer otherwise sends the wrong signals.  We don't need to do it in a 
discourteous manner, but we often learn as much or more from failures as we 
do from successes.  D or C-grade work should not be given an A-grade, 
otherwise what incentive will there be for improvement?  When the mechanism 
that could enable someone to improve is out of order, what then?

Tom C.


>From: Jack Davis <jdavisf8 at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: Re:
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The was, in some unique way, especially meaningful to one viewer. That
>doesn't, necessarily, validate it to anyone else.
>I think that's what every photographer and viewer has to realize.
>
>Jack
>
>--- Tom C <cakaltm at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What?  Is Godfrey in a 3rd grade photography?  :-) Sorry to appear
> > rude.
> >
> > What is good about this picture?  I don't find anything appealing
> > about it.
> > I don't see that it took any more effort than haphazardly raising the
> > camera
> > to one's eye and pressing the shutter release, maybe not even looking
> >
> > through the viewfinder.
> >
> > Not only  is the main subject not in clear focus, the secondary
> > subject is
> > not either, and both are cut off.  I'm not a believer that some sort
> > of
> > unspoken social commentary, makes a photograph a good photograph.
> >
> > If this is the kind of image that constitutes an incredible
> > photograph, then
> > by God, every person that ever picked up a camera and pressed the
> > shutter
> > release a half dozen times is a good photographer, and we should all
> > stop
> > trying.
> >
> > Tom C.
> >
> >  >On 08/05/07, Paul Stenquist <pnstenquist at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >>I missed this as well. Beautifully captured. Very moving.
> > >>Paul
> > >>On May 7, 2007, at 5:50 PM, frank theriault wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On 5/5/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren at mac.com> wrote:
> > >> >>>>   http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/22.htm
> > >> >
> > >> > I missed this first time 'round.
> > >> >
> > >> > In incredible photograph.
> > >> >
> > >> > Just incredible...
> > >> >
> > >> > cheers,
> > >> > frank
> > >> >
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