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Subject: Re: [OM] Alt Dot Moose 2
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:20:28 -0400
Well, it's not my cuppa, but it certainly would draw me over for closer 
inspection. And, of course, viewing a small online image is entirely different 
than viewing a print on a gallery wall. Could be that it would be my cuppa if I 
saw the print.

--Bob


On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:59 AM, Moose wrote:

> On 4/20/2012 11:33 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>> Interesting experiment - looks like it was shot using an old, cheap, phone
>> camera from a moving vehicle.
>> 
>> Just consider this as an experiment Moose and move on !
> 
> Ah, at least one person, among the 10s who looked, was moved to comment. :-)
> 
> Perhaps I need a different context.
> 
> Imagine yourself in a modest gallery, perhaps of an artist's co-op, where 
> there is a wide array of different media, 
> styles and talents on display.
> 
> Across the room from where you've started going through the gallery, you 
> notice this image among others, maybe 1.5-2 
> feet wide. The distance and the nature of the surrounding images is such that 
> there is no external clue as to medium.
> 
> Would you be inclined to move closer, or note that you want to see it better 
> when you get there? Or maybe feel like 
> looking or moving away?
> 
> I'm interested in pure image, separate from source or medium. 
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Alt_Dot_Moose&image=_MG_6192fpb.jpg>
> 
> I could easily have made a "good" shot of these trees @ 300 mm. But I tried a 
> shorter focal length, full pixel crop and 
> possibly unusual processing.  There's a chance it might be about the 
> essential overall visual nature of Monterrey 
> Cypresses, without the distraction of details. ;-)
> 
> Artistically Aspirational Moose

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