... Can I be honest and say I really enjoy it when you voice your opinions? I may or may not agree with some of them, but it sure is fun and lively stuff. Oh, and I'm with Mark, I actually like your "abrasive critique." Keep 'em coming!
...We must be a pretty SCAREY bunch , but at the same time an interesting crew, our vast personalities keep this forum alive with pretty interesting reading IMO, cuz the Lurkers are now becoming De-Lurkers....
WELCOME!!:ivar
You're only as good as your next photo....
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation...I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards --- and, of course, the whip God gave me." Truman Capote
My two pennies. "Theme is in the eye of the beholder" or judge in this case. When I first heard 'craggy or smooth' for LPS 14, I thought "'wow, so cool, mountains!" But I've only lived in the mountains, and they are craggy. 'Texture' never crossed my mind. It's photography and it's conceptual. How cool is that!
...We must be a pretty SCAREY bunch , but at the same time an interesting crew, our vast personalities keep this forum alive with pretty interesting reading IMO, cuz the Lurkers are now becoming De-Lurkers....
Indeed. It reminds one of Jean Lave's and Etiene Wenger's theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Lurkers are on the outside moving in.
I have only entered a few of these and stopped as it reminded me of high school - no, no, not the discussions, but english actually.
I must have been extremely lucky with my art classes, as they were so flexible, our teachers would stand on their head, talk to you and get your point, then mark you lol sheltered, sheltered.
But what used to piss me off about english was literature analysis, when one teacher would TELL me how a book should make me feel, or what it meant.
Unless I am sitting with the person who composed that work, I only know how it made me feel. Then, that person can tell me what they meant - then we can either whoa like Bill and Ted, or be amazed at a unique learning curve.
I kind of lost what this competition was about when seeing 'great' images, well I thought they were great, not making it, when other images that I thought were pretty lax in technical snap, making it through. I am not talking graphics vs photography here - there was like this lull where there was this divide between OK, we will take a great PS job and a complete 'photo' that totally matches the theme, and over-look anything that makes you 'think' about the theme. I guess you see the word 'art' thrown about a few times and assume that is not lateral meaning as such. But then, you see lateral meaning is what makes it, which is an art form in itself - in a lateral way, but not a stand on your head artistic way.
Lateral and blatant - is that art? Or is that just great photography? Personally, I like great photography! and think that is it's own art form but not necessarily 'art'. It is LIFE!
An image can speak a thousand words but they more than often don't and even then, like a book of a thousand pages, it will mean something different to everyone who reads it.
I love this contest and the entrants, don't think this is a slam in any shape or form, please, just my two bobs worth.
Competitions just always remind of just how personal interpretation can be and how precious that really is.
The ultimate test will be when the theme choice is "Black or White". OMG! All of us that live in the gray area will be screwed.
Then again, I'm sure we can somehow interpret that white light can be broken into colors and therefore....... rofl
Ahhhhhh JT are you going there again....:D Black or White...isn't that "Monochrome"...
You're only as good as your next photo....
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation...I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards --- and, of course, the whip God gave me." Truman Capote
OMG, didn't we decide that B&W was a neutral colored achroatic rendering of a three dimensions in a two dimensional space....or something similar.
My head is still hurting.... :help
[Passes over a couple of Tylenol]....Hmmmm Peter...not according to "Shudderz" definintions? View #1 and #3 of her definitions..:D Ok, I need a drink now..then maybe I'll just see various shades of Pink Elephants... :cry
You're only as good as your next photo....
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation...I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards --- and, of course, the whip God gave me." Truman Capote
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but as a lurker, I often wonder the same thing
WELCOME!!:ivar
Indeed. It reminds one of Jean Lave's and Etiene Wenger's theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Lurkers are on the outside moving in.
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Then again, I'm sure we can somehow interpret that white light can be broken into colors and therefore.......
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I must have been extremely lucky with my art classes, as they were so flexible, our teachers would stand on their head, talk to you and get your point, then mark you lol sheltered, sheltered.
But what used to piss me off about english was literature analysis, when one teacher would TELL me how a book should make me feel, or what it meant.
Unless I am sitting with the person who composed that work, I only know how it made me feel. Then, that person can tell me what they meant - then we can either whoa like Bill and Ted, or be amazed at a unique learning curve.
I kind of lost what this competition was about when seeing 'great' images, well I thought they were great, not making it, when other images that I thought were pretty lax in technical snap, making it through. I am not talking graphics vs photography here - there was like this lull where there was this divide between OK, we will take a great PS job and a complete 'photo' that totally matches the theme, and over-look anything that makes you 'think' about the theme. I guess you see the word 'art' thrown about a few times and assume that is not lateral meaning as such. But then, you see lateral meaning is what makes it, which is an art form in itself - in a lateral way, but not a stand on your head artistic way.
Lateral and blatant - is that art? Or is that just great photography? Personally, I like great photography! and think that is it's own art form but not necessarily 'art'. It is LIFE!
An image can speak a thousand words but they more than often don't and even then, like a book of a thousand pages, it will mean something different to everyone who reads it.
I love this contest and the entrants, don't think this is a slam in any shape or form, please, just my two bobs worth.
Competitions just always remind of just how personal interpretation can be and how precious that really is.
Ahhhhhh JT are you going there again....:D Black or White...isn't that "Monochrome"...
OMG, didn't we decide that B&W was a neutral colored achroatic rendering of a three dimensions in a two dimensional space....or something similar.
My head is still hurting....
I'm tellin' ya, crayons are the answer!
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[Passes over a couple of Tylenol]....Hmmmm Peter...not according to "Shudderz" definintions? View #1 and #3 of her definitions..:D Ok, I need a drink now..then maybe I'll just see various shades of Pink Elephants...