Carpe diem Aristotelis Grammatikakis !
Dear Aristotelis Grammatikakis
May I be so bold as to call one so great by your abbreviated moniker Ari?
I am 100 percent in agreement with you on the poor taste and offensive material that is out there, I see from all the previous posts, you have struck a nerve. From the depths of their herd like silence photographers have rallied to your cause, naming solitary trees, rocks and I am adding rushing water on long exposure time to the list.
You stand on the brink of greatness Ari and I hope you realise it.
Organise my friend become the commander in Chief of the good taste police for analog photography.
Start small, start here, get yourself made moderator for good taste. People can securely snitch to you and your team of assessors about new photographs posted. We can get people to sign up, like fair-trade. We need a logo so each signature has it proudly displaying membership of the new force in analog photography. Proud member of Aris Good Taste-Pictures bumper stickers for our American friends, because they dont believe anything is real unless it appears on a bumper sticker.
Now here is how you will be able to hold influence, once you get a few hundred to join, we can mop up the independent thinkers to join our cause easily via gentle cajoling, or by visiting those in need of more personal counselling. I am sure signing membership papers becomes a no brainer when some mad grinning Irishman is sitting there with 3 or 4 of your favourite cameras and has a battery operated drill buzzing menacingly, the bit hovering near that once perfect glass. Realistically we only have to do this to one person who holds out, one of the more well known photographers and the rest will crumble.
Now with all these memberships we have the power to start with Simon from Ilford and set in place an approval system where only card carrying members of Aris Good Taste Pictures can purchase film, once Ilford realise the sense in following the majority, we tackle Fujifilm, Kodak, Fomapan and so on. Within a year or two the loose stock of film out there should be used up and then Ari you hold complete control and can finally save photography from those people with barbaric ideas of what is a decent composition.
And that is just for starters!
Wanders off into the distance with dreamy images of piles of confiscated digital point of shoot cameras being ceremoniously burned in town squares across the world.. Never again to hear bulls*** statements at parties like dont worry .. Ill delete the bad ones later .... Yeah sure you will.
