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Subject: [Leica] [IMG] Uncle Ted probably won't like it
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:46:52 -0800
References: <4D5BF222.6060804@summaventures.com>

Peter Dzwig offered:
Subject: [Leica] [IMG] Uncle Ted probably won't like it


>I was foraging through my stacks the other day and found this which I like 
>very
> much but isn't probably standard LUG fare. I kept meaning to post it but 
> never
> got round to it, so this time I think I will:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/SeaHolly20090906-1.jpg.html
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/SeaHolly20090906-1.jpg.html>

> Sorry Ted ;-)<<<<

Peter mon ami, :-)
SURPRISE SURPRISE! :-) :-) But I do have an eye for "FINE ART" when it works 
as this photograph does. I do like the Sea Holly very much. It has a special 
look about it as "a FINE ART photograph " should look. Nothing pops out 
singly, but the photograph is appreciated in the whole of the content.

Example! In photo No. 2: Totally the opposite! The old church, a half naked 
tree in early growth and over busy with nothing to hold it all together! :-(

The killer that catches your eyes as soon as it opens on screen??????????

The two darkened windows upper left quadrant!! Photo opens and before you 
have time to begin looking at any details you crash head on visually into 
those two darkened windows and it's tough to get away from them to look at 
anything else. Basically way too busy with far too many bits and pieces all 
over!

Now look back at the Sea Holly! And immediately you see a very interesting 
over all composition in a fine detail image of interest. You do stay to 
admire it in the whole and I imagine its a beauty photograph in any size. 
And in particular, in a large sized room to accommodate a 60" X 40" print, 
it would be smashingly beautiful with the correct framing tying it in with 
the surroundings ! It truly is a "PIECE OF FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY!"

Fooled you again! ;-)

My general aversion to "Rocks & Ferns and non-breathing" so called "Fine Art 
images" is because many are nothing but a piece of exposed light sensitive 
material tagged with a "Fine Art" photograph moniker piece of crap!  If they 
were tagged with something indicating " A special image created by a fine 
chemical technician using the photographic process in the use of liquids" 
then they might be appreciated more often.

But really a lot of them are nothing more than some one with way too much 
time on their hands!

Before anyone responds, :-)  Please give me a few minutes while I go to the 
deep mountain bunkers to have my breakfast to avoid the incoming flak! :-) 
:-)  Have a nice exposure! :-)
cheers,
Dr. ted :-)






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