Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wasn't sure what all the hoopla is about. Of course it's a great picture (as usual per you standard) and you have a way of stirring up discussions, but I do know full well how people can prejudice a photo or comment just based on their own bias and subject line of the post. *Shrug* At 09:38 PM 9/30/2007, Kyle Cassidy wrote: >... >But Steve makes an extremely important point. If I'd posted this >image with the subject line "Photo of my friend Elizabeth" -- my >guess is that a few people would have clicked on it, but not nearly >as many as actually did because they suspected they were to see >something on the very edges of propriety. My own somewhat >vacillating definition of "work safe" is "no more skin than you can >see on prime time U.S. television commercials" -- so there was >obviously nothing that I thought wasn't work safe about this photo >-- you can see this much skin in church on Sunday in most places in >America, and were there a teenager standing on a street corner >holding a scarf in her mouth like that not even Jerry Fallwell would >have pulled his car over to tell her to stop making a scandal. So, >as Steve correctly points out, I am guilty of attempting to mislead >people into thinking the photo is naughtier than _I_ think it is. >But if I'm doing that because i'm trying to be ironic or truculent, >I can't honestly say, it's just what comes out of my mouth. >... // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)