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Subject: [OM] Re: OT but Photo related
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:58:48 -0400
I'll probably be in the area over Easter.  I'll have to remember to take 
a look.

Chuck Norcutt

Doug Smith wrote:
> I was in the Subway sub shop on Transit road in Williansville NY(Amherst, 
> Lancaster or what ever the address really is there, a Buffalo suburb any way) 
> on Tuesday. On the wall they had this group of four photos of vegetables 
> which were about 2 by 4 foot. This is standard type of stuff for a chain food 
> place except for the fact that when I first saw them I couldn't decide if 
> they were some poor attempt at an impressionistic type painting or a photo 
> with really bad JPEG artifacts. If you looked at them closely you could see 
> the jagged curves that result from blowing a low resolution photo up too much 
> and poorly. I never did decide if the producer and buyer of these images; a) 
> had done it on purpose and thought that this was artistic, or B) didn't know 
> any different. If B, has the public's standards gone down so much that 
> something that wouldn't have passed as a snap shot 5 years ago is now 
> considered good?

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