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I only meant that I will pull you out of one of those giant Ford or chevy aircraft carriers, not a Toyota 4-runner. I am a nice guy, love the world I live in, but you DO NOT have the right in my opinion and heart felt believe, to mess up our teetering on the edge planet. I am sorry, it's my world too and I just don't buy "Davey Crocket" politics anymore. The "Right's" crap is going to Actually do America in if it continues to be abused.

 

I HAVE pulled people from thier Ford Excursion's and Lincoln Navigator's before, put huge notes exclaiming my dismay on their windows for all the world to see.

 

We all have our causes, that's mine.

 

Ronald, don't sweat your 4 runner, if it's a 6 banger, it's gonna suck a bit of gas but it's not excessive. the others I have mentioned are...plain and simple.

 

I take pictures to make people think. I get them published and even if it makes them stop for just a moment, that is good.

 

Chill out, it's not a threat, it's a fact. When home in Aspen, once a week I cause some ignorant rich glutton a bit of discomfort and some major public embaressment, make them think.

 

Live with it, I have to live with the greed for now.

 

A human bieng

 

.....stuff of a general nature.

I too, have noticed that certain photographers who are really concerned with ratings have taken Austin's route. I think that is merely a symptom of insecurity. I used to give a rat's rear end about those silly things.....I don't anymore. I live the dream that Austin is so desperatly seeking in his style of shooting that is born of pouring through all the pages of "Outdoor Photographer magazine." I feel I have a long way to go in my own work but I do take tons of awards, have my boss at the paper in Aspen begging me to come back and am working closely with Amy Toensing of National Geographic to get my Thailand story published.

 

If you are Frans Lanting, Jim Brandenburg or Ansel Adams, you don't have to put "Please rate" on every one of your pics.

 

I am about to upload some more pics from my travels as I sit here in my new temporary home In Covent Gardens, London.

 

Sorry about the "Horn tooting" but I, like many on this site, have worked hard to be a good photographer.........I don't have to re-upload my work, it speaks for itself.

 

Cheers Tris,

 

Daniel

I, too, have decided to sit out POW's, mostly because I was busy doing a story on Thailand's disspearing island culture.

 

I have to add to this thread now that it is close to hitting the 300 mark.

 

Did big oil pay you to say that pollution has dropped? That it isane! I have spent the last 9 months traveling and photographing the world as I see it. I have constantly asked folks from all walks of life and all countries what they think of (1) our newly elected furor. (2) our country in general.

 

You had better wake up and smell the Carbon Monoxide.........we americans are not viewed all that well....especially after electing an enviromental "Hitler" for president.

 

At this rate, we humans will not exsist on this planet in 100 years. My father is in nuclear science and has done research on this.

When I do return to the U.S. in a few months.

I WILL personally start removing people from thier SUV's and start a large movment to disable them, legal or not.

 

As for the photo. It gets your attention initially but I find the subject to be pretty common and the car in the backround to be distracting.

 

Word to the wise. If any of you own a pig-a-thon Ford "Explosion" get out if you see me coming, I will physically remove you from it and it won't feel good!!

 

In London now getting all my stuff scanned from S.E. Asia, 2,0000 slides, ooof!

 

Have a great day:-)

 

 

You had posted a couple of questions on pics.

 

Kyle: "Holding a helo" was with a 24mm @f/22 w/ 400 B+W.

 

Vuk: I was having a bad day, it's been the roughest year on record for me (2001) Ratings are fun but not neccessary. Your'e right, I should not be so concerned with them. Maybe if I were not so insecure, I would have not lost my wonderful girlfriend last summer, still a major source of my unhappieness, I know Tony, not the end of the world, but hell! You met her too.

 

I will not be able to post anything new until I get to London in March.

 

So Peter....What is your take on all this?

 

Cheers Rienk!

Hi there. I deleted the comment, I have had THE worst year of my life in 2001 and barely lived through it....no joke. What can I say. I have been the way too sensitive artist type.

There are enough of them on the floor of "Net" to break your neck on........YOU HAVE ALL LOST THEM!!

Kyle, Good for you for professing to actually shooting something recently (Full Moon) The rest seem to be shooting their feet.

 

I like the "image" at first glance, I don't know how to rate it because it does seem to evoke a "Mucho Post Processing" effect, then again, I could be wrong. Image.net??? Photoshop.net?? Ahhh! Jpegholdthemayoextracheese.net!!

 

I believe that if you scanned a Negative or uploaded a digital image and subjected it to minor color/curve/levels/burning/dodging adjustments, then it is still rightfully called a photograph. If you did much more than that, composite work, color replacement,cloning other than dust related, in other words " Ya REALLY mickey'd with it" Then it should be called a digital image (Even though they ALL are now)

 

It is a nice image, it does lack emotion, timing, a sence of belonging if that is what you are looking for. If it is represented as a photograph, than in my opinion, it looks a little like dessert before dinner....kinda fudgy!

 

I have several images that people question in the realm of photoshopping. I LOVE to show the slides and negatives on these.

 

Peter, I have not scrolled through the rope of the week but have you any comments on this jive?

 

I'll check in later. I am heading off to Cambodia tomorrow. Have fun guys.

 

 

Paul,

I have always been drawn to this image, be it a "Manipulation" or not. I like the fact too that the man is looking out of the left of the frame.

 

I just thought I would check in with you folks at PN since I have been on a bunch of little islands in Thailand shooting pics for the past few weeks. I have to go now for I just got done celebrating New Years in Bankok and seem to be attracting mosquitos!!!

 

Ciao'

.....monitor lost it's color!!! Just kidding!

At first glance I thought this was on old photo, I think it was the smoke that did that??? More people smoked back "Then"??? Dunno? I think that the previous POW was the strongest image of the B+W trilogy. The composition is balanced, maybe a bit too much so for a jazz shot?/?/? Opinions, opinions.

 

As for the thead masters...GEEEZ guys!!!! I leave ya alone for a week and the cats eaten the dog, the house is a mess and there is hardly a thing to do with the POW image in your ego echoes. I will check in once a week now even though the internet is only about a buck an hour here in Malaysia. Yep!!

That's right, while you guys are keeping the antacid companies in brisk buisness I am out shooting color, Black and white.....What Ehh-verrr, PICTURES! I am out in the world shooting pictures. Spent 3 days in Singapore, Now in Kuala Lumpur, I will spend days on end in a old fashion town on an island in Panang called Georgetown. then off to Thaialand, Cambodia, Vietnam. shoot till I go boke which should not be too long since I have not worked full time since June.

 

But I. Am. Shooting!!!! Not argueing on a POW comment board! ( Sorry, you verbal runaway freight trains make me laugh:-)

 

I have to say that this image is nice but does not keep me interested like Ian's did.

 

Keep em coming elves, I never object to what you give us after all it's not about any of us now is it.

 

Dan

My boss would be mad if I didn't. I shot this while working for the Aspen Times. I am freelance traveling the world now.

I used a fisheye, they don't use fron filters, only rear mounted yellow, blue and haze.

Ian,

 

I am curious to learn how you came upon the angle. Were you already up in a room and noticed the kids playing? Or did you see them playing and ran to a known window and wait for the moment.

 

I like to give insight as to how a picture happened as I try to do in some of my captions. I think that the image's contrast is fine for the subject by the way, cropping too as I have already mentioned, I think the fact that it has an object in the lower left hand corner gives the children running a destination that is a mystery.

 

Folks.......let's get back to the subject here, photography! I would like to know how many of you actually get out and shoot new stuff on a regular basis, not to imply that the fact that I do makes me better or more informed. I just like to share my work with people, give them something to think about.

 

I think Jennifer has a valid point about Black and White as a cheaper method of honing ones skills too. I also applaud the comment on how the digi age brings unpublished pictures from 1975 and beyond into view, it's like a re-birth of life Magazine online.

 

A question for you all that I thought of:

 

What is POW??? An award for standing out?? A random selection of images to stir Comments? I don't think that it is meant to label a photo as "The Best of the week".

Afterall, it IS called Photo of the week.

 

 

Tris, ( I know, I hate to start him up again folks)

Maybe my monitor on my little Powerbook is too light? Dunno, never have seen the work on other ones. Can anyone tell if they think it is too dark, that might make the color too saturated, especially if consistantly so.

 

There are some red flowers in a tree outside right now that look so bright and colorful, they look "Photoshopped" Food for thought on color, huh? I see the world in color and black and white, it depends on what I am pre-visualizing.

I had color film in the camera when I first saw Snowy animal tracks, I just saw it in Black and white.

 

Threading the needle in Australia,

 

db

 

 

I think so. It has made me think. I have been pulling some black and white images out of my archives to upload.....while the roomates watch Billy Elliot, a film that could have done well to be shot in black and white.

 

I have also created a new folder called "No artificial colors or ingredients" to put the new uploads in as well as move over the old "Bee & Dubbs".

 

I will be away again at the end of this week as I leave Australia after a hard 5 months (Emotionally) to explore Thailand and Vietnam. I am doing doco style work over there on people, not landscapes or adventure sports. I am still going to shoot Provia 100 and 400 over there but ya never know........I might shoot some of that "Proper" stuff over there too, afterall I wouldn't want to pollute my vision with all those artificial colors and ingredients now would I :-)

 

db

I didn't say that I dislike black and white and maybe it was a little harsh to say that it is almost a photographic simplification. I love the stuff! I don't want to bash Black and White and certainly did not of Ian's image. It's just the almost constant "FINALLY"'s that seem to emerge as of late. I find black and white to be as a whole alot easier to work with in terms of subject matter and tonal range control. Color can be too easy too, it's just a matter of subject versus medium and the approach used.........I did say that my own favorite of my images is a black and white now didn't I?

 

db

If this were to have been shot in color back in the "Day" I suspect that it is what would have been used.

 

Ian, I would not change any of the cropping here despite the what the comments above might suggest, this image keeps a genuine feel by including the "Messy Vitality" of life around it.

 

As for Dennis's comment above about "Cookie Cutter" kids??? This is why I wish photoshop were never invented. The fact that photos are now subject to such skeptical scrutiny is really ashame not to mention the Digital composites and creations that are not clearly put in that category.

 

I think this is a well deserved POW. I also think this for it's content............not the fact that it is B+W. Some of my favorite images of my own are in both color and Black & White. Snowy Animal tracks is my favorite image in my own gallery. I could not imagine Horses and rainbow or the paragliding shot as B+W.

 

I guess I am sick and tired of some of the comments around here implying that for a photo to be great, it has to either be black and white or have a person in it. I have PLENTY of "Social Documentary" type photos that have won awards over the years, I choose to share the images I do because I am sooooooo tired of the same dried up Ethiopian scenes from James Natchwey and Steve McCurry taking POY in the NPPA contests every year (Most of those are now in that dreaded color stuff too folks). We all know what images from New York will take it the pulitzer next year. Photography started in a monotone scheme. I often think it is way too easy for photographers to deal with a color problem by simply shooting black and white, your getting rid of the distraction of maybe not so great light or color then aren't you....waaaay too easy indeed!!

 

We SEE in color guys, accept that!! Please don't bash the fact that REAL world is indeed in color. There are some nice POW's on this site, many in B+W and many in color. I think I would of liked this image just as much if it were shot on K-25 for it is the moment, not the damn film. Everything starts as C O L O R!!! Get OVER it and look at the content!!!

 

Good job Ian, the thread and opinions are growing. I think "Asylum is good stuff too but needs a tighter edit, my opinion though :-)

 

db

..........Ummm....JEEEEZ 'a' louise guys!!! Seven, your "Liquid Air" has turned into a not so airy waterfall of comments. I mean....we are all the temperMENTAL artist types but "Meeeanne" is this gettin' wierd. So here I sit at an internet cafe in Tasmania laughing out loud that this thread is turning into a "Rope" of people hanging themselves..TOO funny!!

 

It is for this very reason that I am often hesitant to rate others work on here. I would not want to seem like I have made friends for the reason of pumping up my ratings, I consider my self flattered that I have the level I do already. I have started rating more, but very slowly and deliberatly thought out are these ratings and 90% of the time with a comment. Example: I have not and will NEVER rate my own work, wouldn't know how, kind of a "Flavor of the week" paradox for me, one day I fave the shimmy across Capitol peak (Bout to do another one of those here in Tasmania) another week it may be me gushing over my lost love and this week, it's the freedom I felt while aloft with my dangling feet.

 

I will not even SEE a computer for the next three weeks.......Your'e all getting caught up in each other's "Bra Straps"!!! Try forgetting this place for a bit and go make some images like I am.

 

Anyhowzer, behave whilst I am away children!! Rajeev Surati may come and lay down the law for you if you do not.

 

db

Jane, I like the concept of this. I think I would have maybe cropped out the darker pane on the right up to the frame to emphasize the nicely lit ones. Also, if you can use the "levels tool in Photoshop and slide the midtones knob to darken the midtones, it would help bring the color into the image more.....My two cents?? FYI, I was born in England but have not been there since age 3, I will be there to visit this year. Nice image.

Just a short note and clarification. The fiasco that occured at the top of the ratings ladder was indeed suspect, downright uncouth..and taken care of. It may have mistakenly pointed a rude finger at a great photographer and a friend of mine. I have met Mr. Dummet and like his approach to photography and life considerably. I don't think for a moment that the "Manipulations" of ratings were the work of anyone other than a ill meaning "Fan", "Fiend" or "Interloper".

Lets let this pass and see that reputations remain intact and fingers stop pointing. It dosent matter who the "Group" likes or dislikes. It was simply a matter of very blatant ratings abuse.

 

Onward fellow shutterists

 

db

.......of the Adobe award you took with it. Great image!!

db

coming right at me in this shot. I always crack up when I see this. The fact that it does not have bottomless DOF is a nice chage of scenery too. Good shot!

 

db

That is what I first thought of this image when I noticed it. "Who put bubbles in the pool?

I thought as if it looks as though the yellow thinga-ma-bob was a lane marker.

 

I suppose if I were to nit pick, it would be that the nice transition of yellow to bubbles at the lower portion is soft and gradual. I would have liked to see it carried through on the upper part as well. While there is no moment or emotion really depicted here, there is an artist's or better yet, a "Person's" reaction to what he saw. To me, that in it self, is purely a human trait......I don't see leopards going around re-doing there dots. Humans make Art, period!

Is it really my taste? No. It does however remind me of when I put WAAAAY too much bubble bath in a whirlpool tub and saw them go over the edge and all over the floor much to my partners amusement.

 

As for the lingering threads latley, I think that this group of people wants to do this!!! If this is not the most appropriate venue for doing such, then there needs to be another one established on the main page. Maybe call it "For what it's worth" or something of that nature.

 

As for my publicly annouced immense frustration over a nasty ratings subject, I apologize. I think that when you rate someones work, you need to take time and look at it...then look at it again, kind of like tasting wine. You don't just gulp the whole glass down, belch and say "Mmm! Them's good grapes!" and move on to the next one.

 

Enough of that though, it's going to happen, I have seen it at plenty of wine tastings!!

 

Have fun sipping everyone, I'm going to Tasmania to become a "tasmaniac" instead of needing Prozac.

 

db

This is one of my favorites out of your porfolio Chris. The water and colors are about perfect. I do keep wishing the bottom of the frame had more water in it like the wider version to give it more follow through if you will. Other than that, great nature shot.

 

Dan

We landed on terra firma, I asked what the chances were of hitting the water and they were slim. Too much of a pain to deal with a big ol' tandem chute in the lake.

.....I know that I have been largely a non-participant in these forums up until just recently, guilty as charged. Yes Deborah, the "heart" thing has had alot to do with it, debilitating to say the least. I aplologize for this. Heck! I am the one who has been missing out on all the "color'" in the threads!!

 

I just want you all to know that I will be down in Tasmania's South West National Park for the next three weeks. I intend to get up to my thighs in mud and mountains for the better part of it. I have been exchanging emails with new Geographic photographer Amy Toensing. She has been a bit of help in contacting those folks at the yellow border. I did indeed contact them and let them know that I exsist. I am not setting FOOT back in the states until I get SOMETHING going with them.

 

So that's my rant for this moment. Need to go get some food and pack.

 

Cheers all

......Welcome to POW. If you havent already noticed, it's like your birthday party gone awry.

Friends are invited over for the celebration and they have fun singing your praises.........and then proceed to have a brawl of views and intellect on your dining room table!!!!

 

Anyone who is not on Photo.net, amatuer, pro, or otherwise, is TRULY missing out!!!

 

It's the "Jerry Springer show" of photography forums!!!:-)