Who's mad? He likes your photos and I do not. Brad thinks what you do is perfectly acceptable and I have trouble with the altered image look. Brad takes offense to me saying you are as looney as a March hare. I am also a very poor role model for the youth of today and it is stodgy oldE teachers like me that stiffle the creative gene in our young. I am not mad. I don't think he is mad. We just do not see eye to eye. And you my dear, are still crazy as coot.
Jim, Jim, Jim....I'll let your first comment on this photo speak for itself. You DON'T get it.
About Mary...I don't know her AT ALL, I've only noticed her work in the past couple of days. It's not my business, what kind of person she is. She is entitled to her style, like you are yours. If she posts material that you consider darker than you like, move on! There's a lot of photographers here that I don't understand....I move on to those that I can connect with. It seems a little wreckless for you to say that she is "stranger than you know, I'll bet". "I'll Bet"????? Does that mean that you are just GUESSING what kind of person she is??? Whoa... please, please Jim...tell us who else is weird!!! You must either have stacks of psychoanalysis degrees, or you're one of those people "who just know", right?? Ohmygod, it scares me, that you teach young impressionable children.
Your pointing out, that you have 15,000 karma points, and that you are an "old salt" on this site is just wonderful, Jim. Congratulations. I guess that has earned you the right to be an OLD.... ah, nevermind...I won't stoop.
Like I said earlier, the debate of PS vs. "au-natural" is a fair debate. Though, oddly, you don't feel that there is a debate... it is the way YOU say it is...right, Jim Loy?? Teach us more, Jim...
Looking forward to your next 999 shots, Jim. The NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY shots will give us all something to aspire to. Then we, like your students, can show you our "spontaneous" appreciation for your genius!! You rock, Jim!!
Your newest (but surely only one of millions)fan, Brad
Oh Brad! How late you come to the game. I forgive you your totally wrong impression of me. I had 999 pics posted here for over a year. I could not bring myself to go over 1000. I wanted to leave that mark for others to break. Ask Gabriella Willson about some of my efforts. She has seen nearly all 999. And yes... PS is cheating. I know how to use it. I have a version. I have to do some manipulation because of size requirements. Still, graphic art is not photography. And yes, Mary is weird. Stranger than you can know, I'll bet. As for my skill with a camera? Well, yes... I am not a photographer as many have told me. But I am pictorally honest. And if ya look, I could never go over 15,000 in karma on just one pic... I am an old salt on this site. Jim
Jim, I respect your opinion about image manipulation. I don't agree with it, but it's certainly a subject worthy of debate. I can even (reluctantly) respect the fact that you don't like Mary's style.....again, a matter of opinion. However, to call Mary "weird", because you don't like her style, is kind of humerous, and I believe, quite revealing of your character. Open that mind, Jimmy boy.. And oh bye the way...yes, I post-process many of my photo's. I would dare say MOST people do, so you are putting a lot of people in your "cheater" catagory. I don't mind sharing my opinion of your work with you....... 1. Get outside of you classroom, and take a photo of something interesting. 2. Practice a LOT. 3. Buy Photoshop, it won't bite you, and based on your one offering, you could benefit.
Weird, but working on being as normal as you, Brad
Brad, not adoration.... thanks. They do not adore me, they thanked me. And it was spontaneous. Still, say what ya want about Mary here. Anyone can PS the hell out of stuff. No matter what you are trying to say, PS'ing an image is about as natural and honest as drawing a chalk figure on the sidewalk and claiming it is Mona Lisa. Art may be in the eye of the beholder, but the truth of an image lies in the natural state, not what one can scrounge up with mouse-clicks and pre-programed overlays.
I commend your desire to have the world viewed though an alternative perspective. It invites one to open his/her mind to see things from a perspective that is foreign from the norm...
As for Jim Loy's comment, maybe it's just me...but the shot of a chalkboard with some pre-pubescent adoration is certainly self fulfilling for Mr. Loy, but I'm not sure it opens my eyes to anything new, interesting, or creative. ..Brad
I don't get it... Are you saying the world is all rosey even if the cars are flying? Or is this some form of abstract death wish? I see much of your images are death... oh, and sex. You are weird.
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