[P. J. Alling]

I don't know, I find my stuff is often ignored, which may be just as well.

Tom C wrote:
> 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.
>
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>> From: Jack Davis <jdavisf8 at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
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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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