Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ok so you're walking along and you see obvious beauty and you stop and point your camera at it and maybe change the shutter speed or the f stop and possibly your stance and you push the button and that's the moment when you like to think of yourself as a photographer. Then you get the film developed and the picture looks pretty good except for the rather dull foreground and that's the moment when you like to think of yourself as a good photographer. And you scan in the picture and post it on the internet. And then while you're logged in you decide to look at other people's pictures and you see one that you don't get with a url number like http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1233269 for example. So you stop and find a comment button and announce to the world that you can't see what is right in front of you unless it has been in a magazine a thousand times, on one out of every five post cards sold within ten miles of the spot where you took the picture and on tv and on calendars and is obvious beauty. Don't try to get it, try not to get it. Try to get it without getting it.

First off let me say that commonality does not reduce the value of a picture. Second let me mention that the picture you reference is not accessible. Third let me point out that smug comments that are not constructive are never appreciated here at photo.net nor anywhere else that I can think of. Fourth I dont know what you are talking about rambling about I suppose you think must have been in my head; I have plenty of things in my portfolio, while you with your attitude may not think much of them, everyone must start somewhere. Clearly the site has merit as you say this is a common photo and since I did not submit it to the critique forum I see no reason for your comments, as they say nothing about the photo other than it is common. But while we are making comments on photos let me make one right back at you:

 

Ok you are walking along and you see a gaunt African man with a toothy grin, and you think back to National Geographic, you change your f stop and shutter speed and take a picture of the man straight on, yearbook style, with fully defuse lighting. You get it back and you like it so you post it on photo.net and think youre a photographer. You announce to the world that you dont get it unless you have seen it in newspapers and magazines 1000 times before. You dont get it either I guess.