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The large version is so crisply captured, every detail so realistically rendered that it's like being there.

Thanks for dropping by. I miss your imput and your photographs. I hope whatever blockage or business that has kept you from posting more frequently will soon pass downriver and we'll be treated to your photographic contributions once again. Personally, I seem to have lost some of my creative sureness lately and my photographic confidence has also taken a plunge. Maybe I'm just too reliant on peer feedback which seems to have dropped off both for myself and for other photographers on this site. Photonet seems a far cry from where it was at a year or so ago. As I mentioned to Linda McLellan, there is a lot less of the extended photographic banter and camaraderie than there was in the past.

I share your feelings and observations. Last night I uploaded three photos that should symbolize my feelings and "leaving". I didn't renew my PN subscription and expect to see new material from me about after a month, when back from my spa vacancy in Estonia. But I might be lurking here. Best regards to you, Jack.

I agree with Jeff, the large version really opens up the scene, as well as better shows your lovely soft color treatment, something I do enjoy in your work.

 

I can empathise with you on the confidence issue, even though we are fields apart in many ways...I feel that anyone who cares deeply about their art and self expression will continuously battle self doubt, feelings of inadequacy and other fears in their journey, it's what makes the peaks even more rewarding...those few special occasions when we know that we have achieved something magnificent, even if just on a personal level. In fact, as a once career musician, the greatest successes I ever had were private ones. Moments of pure rapture that others completely missed...but the important thing was that they were fulfilling to me...and fuelled me forward. The passion is what keeps us going, something from viewing your photos I know you have plenty of. Just know that your work has been a godsend to me as a layman, starting a new creative path. I feel that you have shown/taught me so much in your work, that you have become as big an influence, to me, as someone like Dianne Arbus or William Klein. I mean that sincerely Jack and hope it doesn't embarrass you too much.

 

I joined pnet just over a year ago when I bought my first camera and quickly became disenfranchised with the whole ratings structure and the general attitudes, If it hadn't been for the comments from you and a few others, finding a sorta subculture that exists here that can actually "see", I would have left by now.

 

Thanks and apologies for the essay ;)

 

 

 

 

Jack, it is June!

Time to cheer up! Being pessimistic and talking negatively about "how beautiful it was when..." is easy.

I know, because I do it A LOT.

Your abilities has not changed a bit. Your perception of them, perhaps, did.

Seriously, don't you think that you have a duty, albeit a tiny one, to offer witty, excellently composed images to your friends here?

Your photos, even the ones you seem to treat as step children, serve a purpose. I, for one, learn from them.

An occasional photo of yours takes my many hours/days and invites multiple visits. Then, I come to understand... This understanding is sometimes very difficult to put into words and I just keep it to myself.

Being selfish? Oh, yes! What is wrong about that if I do not harm even the wing of a butterfly?

Enough rant! Come on!!!

This photo reminds me of the need for the presence of a human to break the cages we seem to build so easily around us.

The many 'human-made' straight lines, squares and rectangles are broken here by a gentleman who wears a calming blue shirt.

He may as well be a slave of them, unknowingly, like most of us. But the pink side of me says that he signifies hope... as long as you have a human touch.

My appreciation for the extended comments. This picture is certainly no masterpiece but it seems to have a calming effect on me for some reason. Funny how some pictures strike you on a non-rational level and you find yourself responding to them emotionally in ways you can't explain. Anyway, thank you guys; sometimes I slide into these little dips and it's nice to have a friendly hand to help pull me out. Jeff, I hope you'll be around more frequently now. Markku, I'll miss your posts. Have a nice trip and I'll be waiting to see things through your eyes when you return. Bulent and Drew, your support and kind words are much appreciated. I'll try not to bitch too much from now on. Thanks.

There is the trademark (and paradoxical) immediate stillness in this shot and the textures of the clothing are really captivating.

 

I too have become a less energetic participant in pnet over the past year for reasons I don't at all understand and--though perhaps an improved photographer--less sure.

 

 

,,,,a smell of emptiness,,,,the existenstialism´s barrenness,,,,the shadow the only thing you can lean on,,,,,niels