Everyone gets a trophy

[Pieter12]

No, I don't think it does. The reason? It just doesn't matter. There are important things in life - in the world, in your immediate vicinity, and so on - your gripe isn't one of them.

I could just as easily ask why you're insisting on drawing attention to yourself and a superior attitude that is not supported by evidence. What makes you an authority on anything other than complaining?

I have no intent on drawing attention. I am not an authority on anything. Just expressing an opinion. For some that seems to be waving the cat’s rectum I guess.

 

[chuckroast]

I have no intent on drawing attention. I am not an authority on anything. Just expressing an opinion. For some that seems to be waving the cat’s rectum I guess.

In fairness, I don't think that's true in this thread.

It's one thing to say, "I don't like X", which is a statement of personal preference.

It's quite another say, "I think that is objectively crap and I cannot grasp why anyone would make it public." That is a normative statement.

I think what you're hearing from most of us is not hostility, but a gentle nudge to suggest that it is generally a bad idea to use one's opinion as a standard of judgment. That's all.

Go take pictures

 

[Brendan Quirk]

OK, here is an anthology of what I consider to be the better corners of my work over the past 50 years, all scans of silver prints. There are a stinkers in there as well, for reasons that will remain unexplained.

I'm sharing it because (mostly) I like these a lot. Is that sufficient justification in your view? I'm not principally interested in whether you like these, only whether or not "I like these and thought I'd share" is sufficient to share with the class.

Workbook Print Scans - Home

(Oh, and for the record, at least one person I've run into on the Internet- and whom I've never met - thinks the later stuff is complete trash and that I am - and I quote - "a complete fraud" (I assume as a photographer, not as a human being).

You've got it. Not all (but most) to my taste, but the magic is there.

 

[chuckroast]

You've got it. Not all (but most) to my taste, but the magic is there.

Thank you. But at least one person thought it was photographic fraud and thus "crap"


(If you click on an image and hit the 'i' button, you can see what year and month the image was made. I use this to remind myself of an evolving POV.)

 

[Pieter12]

In fairness, I don't think that's true in this thread.

It's one thing to say, "I don't like X", which is a statement of personal preference.

It's quite another say, "I think that is objectively crap and I cannot grasp why anyone would make it public." That is a normative statement.

I think what you're hearing from most of us is not hostility, but a gentle nudge to suggest that it is generally a bad idea to use one's opinion as a standard of judgment. That's all.

Go take pictures

If you read the original post, the only reference to crap is my own work. Others have turned and twisted and misinterpreted that original, although cranky, statement.