Have never before seen the mystery letter groups I've parenthesized at the end of that sentence. I just checked my sent file and do not find them. ??
What's a "cobber?" Jack ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:23 PM Subject: Re: OT - Online critics 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: ""Pentax-Discuss Mail List"" <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:43 PM > Subject: Re: OT - Online critics > > 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 > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Sent: March 15, 2012 3/15/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT - Online critics > > > 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. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > --PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
