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Post a recent photo or follow this weeks theme 'something recent' -/)<div></div>

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post a recent photo or follow this week's theme 'playing in the street'<div></div>

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if the pg has used their imagination in taking the photo then use yours in writing about it avoid using the adjective 'interesting'

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<i>By taking a snapshot you are creating something. All creative processes are additive.</i> <p> <i>Norman, these are not counterarguments or arguments of any sort. They are both CONCLUSIONS, asserted with no reasoning</i> <p> Fred, Prodger said, <i>Whereas photography is subtractive — you start with the world and then you narrow it down to what you want to show</i> <p> Implicit in my statement is the believe that one doesn't start with the world and narrow it down, one starts with nothing and then, <i>hey presto</i>, you have something. This is not subtractive. <p> Furthermore, even if one reduces a photo by cropping (or a musical score by deleting notes) you are still adding to it because you are refining your vision.

mmm, not sure about the letting go bit. would that be letting go forever?

@Julie, in my example I never actually said subtract 'something'. one can subtract the photographic equivalent of the empty set (ie subtract nothing). ditto with addition. and you can subtract from as well as add to a photograph. replacement i took to mean creating something from nothing or altering something or leaving something untouched )

@Fred, I never said anything about Eggleston and I have put foward a counter argument to what Prodger said. By taking a snapshot you are creating something. All creative processes are additive.

<i>They are mulling over a way to think about photos. </i> <p> eh? they are comparing processes. <p> <i>Stop looking for truths and open up to ideas</i> <p> everyone here has opened up to the idea of photography being a subtractive process (<i>thanks Julie</i> ) but some of us have rejected it.

<i>Replacement is not subtraction.</i> <p> replacement is subtraction followed by addition.

<i>Whereas photography is subtractive — you start with the world and then you narrow it down to what you want to show</i> <p> well that's not really subtractive is it. all a photographer is doing is looking at a subset of the world or, as most people would say, a snapshot. nothing's been taken away.

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