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I like your photograph you must have a nice camera. I like your photograph you must have a nice iPhone.
 
One I still chuckle about what happened at a solo exhibition of my work at a local community music school. Two quite elderly couples were wandering along chit-chatting and had reached maybe the 65% point in a long wall of hung work. Suddenly one of the men, the least mobile of the group, growled fairly loudly "Now that's the first one I've seen that I liked!" One of the women turned toward me with a rather embarrassed look on her face and quietly mouthed "Don't pay any attention to him."
 
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Wow you get a tough audience in your part of the world.
 
Sirius Glass said:
Wow you get a tough audience in your part of the world.
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Truth be told, it was all in all a relatively positive experience. There were far more comments of a positive sort, and I even sold a few pieces. I knew going in that the Olde Rusty Stuff that intrigues me is unlikely to provoke any reactions like "Oh honey, it will look great over the sideboard ..." I even semi-successfully did some targeted marketing. I provided small prints, 5x5 and 5x7 of musical instrument themes framed and matted at a price under $100. A few actually sold. If I live to 90 or so, I may even recover what I spent to mat and frame 38 pieces for that show! It was an interesting experience.
 

Do you mean these pieces:
https://pbase.com/dw_thomas/image/154385301
https://pbase.com/dw_thomas/image/154385297

I can see why one would buy those.
 
I was out on a photo-hike today with my Bronica ETRS and tripod.
I was setting up for a shot, and a young couple passed by me.
The guy said "Nice large format!"
I said "Thanks!".
....but my inner voice was saying " Dude, compared to my 8x10, this thing is a Minox!"
 
A guy saw me on street with yellow filter on the lens, confused, "It helps picture ... better?"
"Yes" before I told him I was shooting in B&W, he added , "These days people are strange." then walked away.

I am ...also confused.
 
kl122002 said:
A guy saw me on street with yellow filter on the lens, confused, "It helps picture ... better?"
"Yes" before I told him I was shooting in B&W, he added , "These days people are strange." then walked away.

I am ...also confused.
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We come across all kinds. Sometimes what is find is not worth pondering. Consider occasionally using an Orange filter.
 
Our country's alternative printing maestro / old school photographer commented on my UV enlarger (I've been enlarging 135 film negatives as salt prints): "would it be just more easier to print with inkjet and expose in sun?".

The last person I would expect to say so.
 
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