Quoting Jack Davis <[email protected]>:
One final minor Peter Lik comment; I doubt he completed a sentence
during his Weather Channel photo series that didn't include the
fillers, "bloody" &/or "mate."
Starve the bloody lizards! You got a problem with that, cobber...er, mate??
(I've never seen his show - not sure if it's even been shown downunder.)
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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I have lots of problems with this guy and his photos.
Let me start by saying that I don't know what "art" is, but when the
word "fine" is put in front of it, it usually ain't.
My biggest problem is that everything is larger than life. His
descriptions of the hardships he endures to get the perfect photo,
his description of the photos and the photos themselves. It's all
hyper-real, more than I can take.
Plus, he used the word "zen" apparently without irony. Need I say more?
I know that we all bump up the saturation a bit for a beautiful
sunset or whatever. But this guy is way ott.
I won't mention names because I'm bound to forget someone, but there
are a dozen or more photographers here whose landscapes blow this
guy out of the water. What he's doing isn't bad but it's not great
either.
It strikes me that he's pandering to his audience (said audience no
doubt determined by a market survey) and when that happens often
"art" somehow gets lost along the way.
His stuff (to me) is the photographic equivalent of velvet paintings
of clowns and puppies with big eyes, Andre Rieux or Nora Roberts.
Or Thomas Kinkaid.
Cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
-- Christopher Hitchens
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From: Larry Colen <[email protected]>
Sent: March 15, 2012 3/15/12
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On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:17 PM, <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> wrote:
I had never heard of him until a recent series about his
photographic trips on the Weather channel.
He comes across as bigger than life, a little too aninmated but I
think his photos speak for them self.
I saw a couple episodes of his show. The guy makes me seem
humble. He talks about the difficulty of hauling his SLR out
to where ever, and there's the cameraman videotaping him rappelling
down the cliff. But, they don't mention that. All the
video is just as impressive as the stills they flash. To be
honest, the guy isn't a bad photographer, he just is nowhere near as
good of a photographer as he is a publicist.
With his salesmanship skills, even I could make a comfortable living
at photography.
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