COMPETITION

[pinemikey]

The League Of Obsessive Nitpickers, aka 'L.O.O.N' will allow you to get things off your chest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A1095716

After that, pop on over here to Top 10 Characteristics of an Art Snob

[dougj]

Further reading, from Ken Rockwell:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

[madlights]

Further reading, from Ken Rockwell:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

jeez I love that site...I'd forgotten about it...thanks Doug
here's one http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

[dougj]

LOL Barri. I don't know what I created on the site, it didn't use a camera but maybe I can sell the screen capture as art anyway

[sean_mcr]

I think the best way to end this is to actually see some art in photography.

http://www.marktucker.com/

[akjack]

See Audrey Bodine ....worked with my grandfather at the Baltimore sun in the 50's...bet no one here has heard of him...post comments please ! Do web search.

[akjack]

Better yet...see above !

[sean_mcr]

Better yet...see above !

You know jack, one of the things i love most is collecting photography books. I'll spend hours going to various used book stores looking for books

Well i found "my maryland" such finds make all the walking worth while

Pictorial work is not really my genre. but i do think that Bodines work captures the love that one man can have for a place. It's not just about pretty pictures, pretty pictures are not too taxing. It's about how you feel about a place and its people. Actually reminds me of Frank Hurleys later work, when he became too old for war photography and just travelled Australia taking pictorials. Hurley was the most important war photographer of the first world war. Everybody knows Capa, but it's rare that i ever see a discussion on Hurley


I love simple, honest photography. Fashion photography leaves me cold 99 times out of 100, so does most studio work. By simple i mean making it look simple, and that's not simple at all. If anybody ever looks at a photograph and thinks "Christ, why didn't i see that" it's because they've been shown what's staring them right in the face. The only real way to remind us of lifes value is to remind us that beauty is all around us if we just open our eyes to it. It's not about what things look like, it's about how you see them.


It's been said that there are two types of photographers. Those that see what they believe and those that believe what they see. The latter are in danger of making photo records and it's those people that tend to believe that good photography is easy.

I have no interest at all about how much somebody makes out photography. I just care about their photographs; i'll always champion a good photographer


http://chuckkimmerle.com/

Now jack, you seem to have calmed a little since your first visit and i hope that continues

Keep shooting

Sean

[akjack]

Sean, I better think more on photography so that I can fine some more chinks in the armor ! Yes, I agree with much of what you say. I find fashion photography at the top of artistic photography expression though and so does the rest of the world. In the news and obits of large media outlets you will see articles on famous fashion photogs when they leave this watery realm, not so other photographers of other types of images. I think Bodine was as as good or better than Ansel Adams, who to me was mostly a master printer than great photographer. If you have been to Yosemity(opps...spelling again) you would know that many average photogs could get great photos there, just as many could take great shots of Angelina Jolie, (its the subject matter)and I believe that subject matter is 85% of great photos. Bodine was probably just as polished in the darkroom as Adams, but did not invent something called the zone system. Well, gotta go, I need to go out and buy one of the two major brands of camera, coz they say that will make me a real pro photographer ! see ya !