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Subject: Re: [OM] TOPE: Landscapes
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:03:32 -0800
Hi Henry,

I must admit, my personal definition of a landscape has become much more loose since I have begun trying to find something nice and scenic in southern michigan in march. hahahha. Its all brown and gray and mud.

Charles

This might come across the wrong way. I hope it doesn't.

Here is wisdom. You can stand _anywhere_ with a camera. It doesn't matter. Look around carefully, with interest. I guarantee there will be several good pictures to be made from that spot. You just need to see them.

As for a "landscape" picture, I wouldn't get too hung up on the definition. Go shoot a muddy barnyard or fence line in some pasture, whatever. It'll be just as much appreciated. There aren't any image snobs around here.

Tris


I would very mildly disagree in that the landscape is the last layer for everything. For it to be a landscape it has to be the subject, not the background. Anything in the landscape becomes a picture of the thing. A fence or a barn in the landscape is a picture of a fence or a barn unless it is so small as to be inconsequential, or just an accent in the picture. But we can decide to be as loose as we want in our submissions as a group. And who says that a landscape has to be "nice and scenic"? Isn't that like not taking pictures of people because they do not look like professional models who seem to represent the usual notions of physical beauty?
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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