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<p>I love your ideas on critique, Gerry—we’re thinking along similar lines. I’m putting together a plan for ad hoc co-op critique groups along the lines of the No Words forum. Someone starts a critique thread, and the first 10 people who post to the thread become the co-op group for that thread; all comment on all the photos in the thread. Person number 11 starts their own thread, and so on. Each thread dissolves at the end of the discussion of those 10 photos. This model would make critique available to everyone who wants it, it would ensure a wide spectrum of feedback, it would encourage discussion, and it would ensure that everyone participating actually wants feedback, making the commenting worth the effort for the commenters. It’s a structure that would fit neatly within the existing forum structure, and, like No Words, it wouldn’t take a lot of oversight. Anyway, I’m still puzzling over the details, and plan to do an off-line beta test before trying it for real (silver lining department: I wouldn’t have thought of that step 3 weeks ago). What do you think? Workable? Sound like something you might like to participate in?</p>

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I am not much in posting my photos for critique so I can't say it would be fair to just comment on others. ( I am a fierce self critic by now) But I may be open to doing that once it gets going just to help the effort. I can't agree off hand to comment and then start a thread with one of my photos is what I mean .if I understand your thoughts. Not a party pooper I hope. But I love new ideas. And old ideas resurrected with new voices.

<p>I would certainly be interested.<br>

I'm not here especially into intimate dialogues with, what seem to me always will stay virtual individuals. I'm Interested in inspiration and learning from seeing and commenting on inspiring and creative photos of others and showing the result of my own works. If my own works can inspire others I'm happy.</p>

<p>Leslie,<br>

I would be definitely interested. I can't be sure if I will have a fresh photo everytime, since I don't shoot on a daily basis, but in a burst every couple of months. I would like to go back to some of the old photos from my portfolio and post a picture that I think is worthwhile, but did not receive much attention in the past. Other times, I can post pictures that I have just shot. Would that work? For critiques, I am definitely up to it, and I will write critiques for photos posted to the threads.</p>

<p>That would definitely work, Supriyo, and I'll be doing the same: a lot of the photos I particularly need feedback on are old ones I'm now revisiting. And Anders - your approach very definitely works, too. What I'm hoping is that each group encompasses as wide a range of approaches to photography and critique as we can get. </p>