Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ouchie!! Well, a professional can take mediocre pictures, and some of the amateurs take pretty good pictures (IMO). But there is difference between someone who takes pictures for gratification and someone who gets paid to do so, and I respect that difference. The contrast is probably even greater between amateur writers and published (not self-published) writers. I could probably live as a starving photographer, but there's something I can do that others will pay me more to do (push paper 8 hours a day) than I would get paid shooting pictures. Call me a whore if you'd like, but doing the former allows me to do the latter. Jeffery At 04:59 PM 10/29/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I have two complaints with this statement. First, if someone is annoyed >because you posted a photograph: > >PHOOEY ON THEM! > >Photographs are what it is all about. I am the first person to admit that >a great deal of the work posted here I would not post if it were mine. I >also do happen to not care for much of my work and so I rarely post >photographs (maybe only once but I cannot remember for sure). That is not >a model to emulate, that is just me. We are all at different levels and >hold different aspirations regarding photography so a wide gamut of work >is to be expected and, at times, endured. Tough, that is life, I got used >to it so will the nameless but always unsatisfied they. > >KEEP POSTING PICTURES > >This however does not give anyone the right to complain about the lack of >positive or, for that matter, comments at all. Most people have an >emotional attachment to their images and do not particularly want their >bubble burst. When their or another's bubble is burst, they complain >loudly. I say tough again, if you want a only a certain type of response, >send the photograph to yourself not to us. > >CAN'T STAND THE WET? STOP TOPPING UP THE HUMIDIFIER! > >Finally amateur does not mean poor quality in its original language and I >resent that english has attached such a connotation to this word. Amateurs >practice photography and every other discipline at the very highest >levels. If you mean mediocre, do not use amateur please! > >John Collier > >On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >>...and have stopped posting on the LUG simply because there seem to be >>more folks >>annoyed or offended by amateur work in this group. > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html