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Subject: Re: [OM] Images As The Mood Strikes - 18
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:46:15 -0700
siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Oooh, I do quite like that one--unusually, since Moose's style doesn't click 
> with me, most of the time. Hope you don't mind my frankness  
>   

Not in the least. Tastes vary.

If you were to do a correlation of images posted on the list and my 
responses, you would find certain types that I seldom ever comment on. 
When I do, it will likely be about technical ways to enhance them, where 
I see what appears to me to be a way to improve the photographer's 
presentation of the subject that he/she has chosen, rather than comment 
on content/composition.

I know some of my favorite subjects aren't everyone's cup of tea. I 
certainly wonder sometimes why I continue to shot the same things over 
and over again. Flowers are an example. I continue to shoot many of the 
same ones I shot last year, and the year before and the decade before, 
and so on. Yes, overall technical quality has improved over the decades, 
mostly with equipment improvements, and a little due to technique.

But the real reason is very simple. I enjoy it. Spending an hour or few 
shooting at a garden, then the evening browsing through the images just 
makes me feel happy. I can't think of a better reason. Nor do I need to 
know why. Endless, to me repetitive, images of flying machines just bore 
me. A few, carefully chosen images with interesting color, composition, 
etc, where photographic values predominate, nice. A gallery full of d 
planes flying or languishing in museums? Nah. But I imagine others find 
taking and viewing them as enjoyable as as I do with flowers and other 
images of nature.

I imagine those of your shots that are records of social interaction 
have a similar appeal to you. I have a perfectly nice time wandering 
through all or part of a gallery of them, but don't find they generally 
speak to me.

But then some of your found architectural and other set pieces I find 
quite engaging.

> (your posts are always good reading, however).
>   

Thanks!

Moose
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