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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/7/2009
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Very plausible indeed, Saad.
Still I must ask myself why the norm of quantity is considered to be such a "god-given" thing, and why it has to take "a rebel" for negating it. If we assign "normality" to the most abundant, then we simply play with probabilities, and this is a very statistical (empirical) way to me, which perhaps catches what *is* but not at all *why* it is. There is absolutely no logical reason to name something "normal" because it is done or fulfilled by a big number of individuals. This would be some kind of dictating behavior out of pure quantity, which then would mean that any quality is just that: What most of us do.
So, if most of us directly or indirectly supported the crimes of some war, does this automatically mean that it was "normal" (in the sence of "good") to do so? I can't accept it this way, when I know at the same time that the same "most of us" changed their mind today.
It seems that it takes a lot of resistance to not accept things just because they are generally accepted, or we must face then the situation in which we took too much for granted and did the wrong thing. But it also seems that going with the stream is so comfortable that we often persuade ourselves that the comfortable is always also the right. And so the catastrophes are lurking behind the corner of personal comfortability in the sense of "my house, my kids, my happiness".
A bit more objective and logical thinking would be good for a more humanistic understanding of "my own existing self" embedded in the space of many many others, since neither I nor anybody else can exist in some totally isolated vacuum, in which our actions don't affect the fates of those "others". (I.e., when I use more energy than I need here in Switzerland.... at the end I am stealing it from somebody elsewhere on this world who desperately needs it. The world is finite.) To recognize that one has to abandon the usual sense of "normality of the most of us", and start thinking logically and in small steps, rejecting the many "normal" things that were believed to be granted. One has to question everything not for necessarily rejecting it, but just for examining it. So to speak... we all do this and that, but let's see once again if it perhaps means some conflict too.
Thoughts on a Saturday afternoon, you know.
Nick
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/6/2009
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they should call you like that ,since you are different,
a different anything will call for titles and attention from the other different people,and just because they are so much out numbers the little different people ,the last being called different,and the former called the normal,
you should figured it Nick,I am addressing myself by that.
cheers.
Saad.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/6/2009
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"Talented rebellion", he says... ;-)
Strange it is that you say that too, Saad. In all my life I keep on hearing that even from my own family. When I was home in Greece they used to call my grandfather and me "the renegade republic of the family". ;-)
Still I I don't feel like rebelling at all. It's only that I sympathize with the many too many people all over the world that are pushed to do things that they don't want to do, and I can find neither logical nor practical reasons for such a suppresion. It only brings misery, illness, depressed faces, unsatisfied lives, to be treated like a "follower", and so I think that a more liberal and humanistic approach would be better for us all. I can't see any reason for blocking somebody's wish for example to go out and do photography for living - or anything else too. If we only norm people according to some (hypothetical) needs of economy, politics, religion, career, and whatever else, then they will break down some day and that I find a pity. The small plant of humanism needs free air to breath, or else we come nearer and nearer to the scenario of "big brother".
So... is that really "rebellion"? I don't know but I would rather name it humanism. It's accepting each and everybody exactly the way he/she wants to be. But unfortunately nowadays politics has a different idea! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/5/2009
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thank you so much Erwyn,my regards,
Saad.
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Erwyn's Image
{K:422} 2/5/2009
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that's a gorgeous tower. I wish we had such architecture here.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/5/2009
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very well understood Nick,then you are a talented rebellion,Cheers.
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/5/2009
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thank you so much Solmaz,my best wishes,
Saad.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/5/2009
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Thanks a lot Saad.
I don't think that I am any more talented than we all are. We all have our talents and things we would like to do. Unfortunately many people do not grab the chances when this seems to be disadvantageous for a "good job", "high earnings", "secure life and future", etc. And so it is rather the wish for a "normal" life than the non-existance of talents.
In my case it was that at some point I rejected the "normal life" for doing what I wish to do. In some sense I bought more freedom at the cost of much of the comforting golden cage. It was accepting also that I am not going to have a regular salary and perhaps also I end up in the streets some day. But this doesn't weigh that much for me. (At least for the time being.) So it is less talent than it is wanting to live my own life and not the life that is dictated by those who generate trends and hypes.
Too many people do only what they are told to do, Saad. I don't think that a human life should be pressed into norms like that.
Cheers!
Nick
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Solmaz Pahlavanzadeh
{K:5141} 2/5/2009
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So impressive and nice dear Saad.
Best,
Solmaz
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/4/2009
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thank you Robert,my best regards,
Saad.
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 2/4/2009
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Now that is high up. I like the people for scale. Excellent black and white image.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/4/2009
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thanks a lot for the information Nick,you are very talented man,if you have all these interests and so much deeply engulfed in them,my very best wishes,
Saad.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/4/2009
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You are very welcome, Saad, and of course you can ask. Why not?
I like photography very much. (I don't mean the typical "liking" that many too many naive will always have until it starts smelling after hard work.) I can't say if I like it more or less than playing my music with the band, or doing mathematics, or working for science, programming, doing research, drinking... I like many many things equally strongly, and since I am in the more or less happy position to be able to do whatever I want whenever I want it there is no real "hierarchy". I think, if I wouldn't be able to do photography for a long time, I would of course miss it and perhaps also "like" it more than other things until I start with it again.
Cheers!
Nick
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Sinem .
{K:9180} 2/3/2009
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Extremely great work :) here is called GALATA KULESİ in turkish and very important place with a lovely view of Bosphorus. I am glad to see this such as a great work.
all best to you Dear Saad..you know to capture good places in İstanbul . Lucky you :)7/7
Sinem
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/3/2009
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thank you so much Ania,my best regards,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/3/2009
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thank you my dear Nick for the fine input,I really like your comments on my shot,Oh ,not only mine ,that is why I read your comments on my friends shots as well,
Nick,if you do not mind a personal question,how much you like photography among other things ?
please ,do not answer if you do not want to,,
as for me there is nothing to like more in the last two years,and one among less than five thing that I have loved before,my best wishes,
Saad.
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Ania Zielińska-Hoşaf
{K:61374} 2/3/2009
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Very nice work Saad! I wonder how it's in color :)
Best,
Ania
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/2/2009
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Extremely good exposure balance and tonal range on this one, Saad! Then details and textures of the tower are magnificent to look at, and they also contribute a lot to the overall scene. Only the right contour and the top of the tower's roof shows definitely the signs of inadequate handling (see the the zig-sags and the "ghost contour" there), but the rest of it invides for a long closer look, and makes the strong light very very well feelable. Actually the whoile tiower stands out very strongly - it pops out of the imsged plane in all its grandious details.
The composition might be quite trivial but it is well done too.
Cheers,
Nick
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Anyla Syla
{K:1058} 2/2/2009
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wow beautiful architecture and good job!!
any...
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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thank you Mesut,I had to be there,just say with me,Inshaallah,my regards,
Saad.
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Mesut Yilal
{K:3315} 2/1/2009
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Aziz you had to be up there during sunset.. and waiting for the illumination of the Mosques..
Like the jewelerries of ISTANBUL..
ONE OF THE BREATH TAKING PANORAMAS ON EARTH..Nice capture you took..
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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thank you so much Aziz,my best wishes,
Saad.
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 2/1/2009
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Great shot of a tall tower, ..
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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thank you Ali,all the best.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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very unfortunately not been up there,could you imagine that,swear never to miss anything ,if I had to be there again,my regards,
Saad.
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 2/1/2009
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Impressive shot. Have you been up ?
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Ali dewchi
{K:15992} 2/1/2009
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عزيزي سع
عمل جميل جدا ، ولقطة رائعة
تحياتي
علي
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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thank you so much Harry for encouragement,appreciate your visit and input,
Saad.
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 2/1/2009
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so many thanks my dear Yazeed,regards,
Saad.
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M jalili
{K:69009} 2/1/2009
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Excellent ...............
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H L
{K:11377} 2/1/2009
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Wonderful originality on this capture, especially I like the peripherals feel with people. Beautiful work, Saad!
Cheers,
Harry
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