Hi Walt,Bill:
It depends on how rhe guy behind the camera defines "photograph" is it
-a verb
-a noun
-an object
-a result
-an act
-a memory
-raw data for photoshop
Question for Walt- Hey, man, are you growing those tall plants again?
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: <NSURIT@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:42 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Great Sand Dunes National Monument (soon to be Park)?
>
> In a message dated 6/15/04 1:48:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
hiwayman@xxxxxxx
> writes:
>
>
> > In major curmudgeon and gadfly mode, I ask this:
> >
> OK, we all do that from time to time.
>
>
> > Why do you want to shoot something that's been shot a million times
before?
> > Do you really think you'll get something marvelous, some Ansel Adams
> > "Moonrise" sort of masterpiece nobody else has ever done before?
> >
> >
>
> Because I haven't done it a million times before (or even once) and I
might
> just get an image that could hang on my wall that I find pleasing. There
is
> also the outside possibility that I might learn something in the process.
If
> I'm going to see someplace so significantly different from the coastal
plains on
> which I live, why would I not capture some images of it?
>
> I often shoot nature and wildlife stuff with a group of friends and we
then
> get together later to critique our results. It is interesting how each of
us
> sees our world and although we will have a few photographs which are
> essentially our interpretation of the same subject matter, it is just as
often than we
> marvel at what one or the other of us has seen that we totally missed.
>
> Some of my favorite images have been done within about 50 feet of my
> backdoor, as well as, inside the house. That is one of the reasons I
plant the things
> I plant and feed the birds, squirrels and rabbits that share this urban
> landscape with us.
>
> I hope my mortars didn't fall too close to your fox hole.
>
> Bill Barber
>
>
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