peter_l_ck Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 R 6.2 + 100 Apo + 400 Delta<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_carson Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Hi Peter: You,ve captured a good composition of the flower but I would suggest a good dose, a double dose, of "Blur" to soften it up -too sharp and clinical? Regards, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_bender Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 "A rose is a rose", i.e. the item repeated twice, is a meaningful stock expression in English and other languages. In the USA everyone says it 3 times, what makes it meaningless, pretentious, and plebean: without understanding nd thus distorting the actual meaning of the phrase, we wish to make it sound "cool". Yuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diego_k. Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 A rose.......<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_laban Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 ......except when it's an Ice Rose.<p><a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">www.keithlaban.co.uk</a><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 <i> "A rose is a rose", i.e. the item repeated twice, is a meaningful stock expression in English and other languages. In the USA everyone says it 3 times, what makes it meaningless, pretentious, and plebean: without understanding nd thus distorting the actual meaning of the phrase, we wish to make it sound "cool". Yuk. </i> <p> Actually, it <i>IS</i> "A rose is a rose is a rose." And it's not "a stock phrase," or at least it didn't start out that way. It's a quote from Gertrude Stein's "Sacred Emily." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Actually I looked it up and she repeated "rose is a" four times in that particular poem, though she used it again in some of her other work, and may have shortened it to three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjarke_vejby Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 London, may 2003<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas k. Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Hey Bender -- look up this word in your dictionary: PEDANT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 mr. bender has never let facts stand in the way of his spewing insulting drivel. it often winds up being directed at americans. (psssst....bender.....i don't think peter is from the us.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_l_ck Posted July 5, 2003 Author Share Posted July 5, 2003 Tom you are right, I'm living in Leicaland and of course I wanted to quote Gertrude Stein. For some others here a quotation by Rainer Maria Rilke (my favorite poet) from the first Duineser Elegie: ".. ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich..." Peter<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_mann3 Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 Peter, I think it's a nice clean informative picture of a rose. Imogene Cunningham did several very fine and well known flower pictures, and they are not fuzzy or out of focus or otherwise romanticized as one forum comment suggested. You are working in a good tradition. And as for your paraphrase of the Stein quote, it seems a perfectly appropriate cultured and informed way to present your image, invoking the sense of focus on the object photographed, which is after all, what photography is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_l_ck Posted July 5, 2003 Author Share Posted July 5, 2003 Peter, thanks. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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