Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It may be the way of the LUG, but it doesn't mean it has to be our culture. We can change; we have changed. Many of us do our simple attaboys off-list now. I find them far more rewarding than the comment, "pity the jet contrail in the upper right corner behind the cactus" comment. Also, "The power lines intrude." Another suggestion that tires me is that I should try a flower or berries in black and white. (GRRR) Maybe some don't believe the color of those things have a purpose, but I do. If you want to criticise my stuff, tell me something real. Tell me there is a distracting element that I can do something about. Sometimes I agree, sometimes it is there for dissonance. (Like the blue flower, Phillippe) I want to hear real crit, but I really hate, and think blank suggestions drag down our work, and I think lots of times we get suckered into "fixing" a shot that was really great before the suggestion. Best thing that GeeBee ever did was stop listening to this kinda petty stuff, just boldly post his best every day. Maybe some day I'll achieve that ability to let it flow off me like an English rainfall. Sonny On 1/8/08, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2008 8:16 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@gmail.com> wrote: > > What can I say, I'm a crude redneck. ;-) Sometimes it kinda sets > me > > off though. when I get a comment that recognizes something I have no > control > > over and deals with nothing whatsoever about the shot, subject, > technique or > > humour of the submission. > > Come on Sonny. > > You've been on the LUG longer than I have. > > You know that is the way the LUG works the majority of times. > > Those kind of things used to bother me. I'm used to it now. Now and > then someone like Ted chimes in and you forget all the other times. > >