bertr

Peter, thank you very much for your helpful information.

In this forum there are surely professional photographers who have used these permission-cards for years. The purpose would simply be to post the image on the PN...I appreciate your reply, Frank, inspite of its somewhat condescending tone... Bert

What is the legal wording on a "permission card" to be signed by the subject of

a photograph?

for god's sake...hit the delete button... Bert

Craig, would you by any chance have the address of the head office of the "Whale watchers for Free Love" society? I'd like to join.

There are a number of portfolios on the PN which consist to a large degree of photographs of paintings, or sketches. In some cases, the artist who drew the sketch is clearly very talented as an artist. What then am I looking at, and what am I rating? The two-dimensional painting, or the photograph thereof? If I went to the Louvre and took a good photograph of the Mona Lisa and posted it on the PN what would people say: "Leonardo is one great painter" or "Bert is one hell of a photographer-- Look how he captured her smile!"

It is my honest belief, that photos of paintings should be in a category by themselves, or should not be on the PN at all.

Don't say I should ignore them..because some of these sketches are wonderful and I admire the artist. This, however is a PHOTO GALLERY and not a Museum of Fine Arts....Bert

All the above should surely tell us that there is no such place as "the most beautiful place in the world", since "Beauty" truly lies in the eyes of the beholder. Each of us has his/her own "most beautiful place in the world". If this were not so, that singular "most beautiful" place would be so overrun by photographers, that we would end up photographing each other...and wouldn't that be a disaster.