Thanks, Rob for posting this. It is absolutely priceless! Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 3. januar 2006 23:49 Til: [email protected] Emne: Finally: 2005 PDML Quotations Sorry this is a couple of days late. I just got back from a long New Year's weekend in NC. Long list this year. Probably because I kept getting suggestions from so many people ("Mark!") So without further ado, and in mostly-chronological order (starting with the most recent and going back to the oldest), here it is: "Moments of delirious personal satisfaction are the engines of effort." - Jack Davis "It is just what ever is in front of the camera that I want to look at again... " - Ann Sanfedele "Speaking of film, I had to move some out of the way to get to the Hershey Bars in the fridge last night." - Doug Brewer "I've spent so much of my life working in amateur photofinishing, nothing really bothers me anymore." - William Robb "Thanks Mark, Bob, Shel, Fred and to a lesser extent, Frank<g>" - Dave Brooks "I'm drinking coffee, and smoking legal stuff. I've just got a sick mind ;-)" - Tim Øsleby "'Vague' is my only reality." - Jack Davis "Fun is important to me." - Fred "If you get the best scan, the rest of the image editing is easier. If you get the image processed nicely, the printing is easier." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "What I'm good at is holding the camera steady while continuing a conversation." - Cotty "The vast majority of photographers never exploit the full capabilities of their equipment." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "The successful photographer is the prepared photographer." - Doug Brewer "I hope my work is never judged by the type of camera I use to produce it." - Paul Stenquist "It's making the mundane things in this world come to life that makes good photography stand up to be counted... " - Keith W "There are no rules in photography, just preferences." - Cotty "Don't underestimate morale!" - John Forbes "90% of everything is off-topic." - Cotty "I mostly have manual focus lenses; the rest I focus by hand." - Bob Walkden "It wants me to log in, and doesn't offer the choice of a 'Get Stuffed' button." - Bob Walkden "I have a 50 roll per year Ektachrome habit" - Rick Womer "You do the fatal mistake of equaling your esotetric, (lunatic) fringe interest with interest of average buyers. - Pål Jensen "He makes the Amish look positively groovy." - John Forbes "People don't want the actual gear the pros use, they just want the same brand name emblazoned on whatever they can afford to buy." - Cotty "Art happens..." - P. J. Alling "(Macromedia) Flash is a problem masquerading as a solution." - John Forbes "I see more signs and portents in the detritus on the sidewalk than in the newspaper." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "Get something you can enjoy and start enjoying it now. Life is too short..." - Bob Sullivan "Surely nobody here goes anywhere without a camera ..." - ERN Reed "I don't really care what the galleries call them, so long as they *sell* them!" - Bob Shell "It is very easy to manufacture 'problems' via unreasonable amounts of scrutinization." - William Robb "I thought I saw some of Frank's stuff, but it turned out to be only HCB." - Unca Mikey "Fun makes great photography" - Godfrey DiGiorgi "Prophets of the One True Way just show they are stuck in a limited rut." - John Francis "If he's saying that *one* can only capture that kind of image with the equipment he is advocating, he is wrong. If he's saying that *he* can only capture that kind of image with the specific equipment, maybe he's right!" - ERN Reed "Most images don't deserve to live as long as the medium." - William Robb "It looked like an ordinary bottle of water. But it was on a plinth!" - Wayne Hill (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4718573.stm) "Brute force *is* an option!" - Alan P. Hayes "My pictures are improving all the time but my percentage of keepers is about the same. As I improve, I become harder to please. My bad pictures are now better than my previous good ones." - Tom Reese "I don't know if digital has made me a better photographer, but in many situations it has improved my results." - Paul Stenquist "I'm working from memory, so anything I write is meaningless." - Mike Wilson "Back then, as I recall it, I was only interested in capturing images. I used what I had, no matter what it was, and did the best job I could." - keith_w "Putting blind faith in a light meter guarantees non-repeatable results." - William Robb "Dust has been haunting me since I started photography in 1968." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "If you don't have women about, go to the camera clinic at GFM and get one from Mark Roberts." - Cory Waters "Technology comes to help you, but not to replace your brains with some electronic appendage." - Boris Liberman "Every lens I've bought in the last year has a purpose" - Amita Guha "Oh heck, set the little round thingy to the little green thingy and go take some pics!" - Don Sanderson "The most pimptastic lens I have right now is a M50/1.4" - Jon Myers "Anything more than 100 yards from the car isn't photogenic when I carry the 6x7" - Lewis Matthew "For those who still think that the marketplace should determine what is good art, I have just two words - Andy Warhol." - Bob Blakely "If you shoot wide enough you might be able to crop *something* decent out of it!" - Jerome Reyes "As for Cotty, I have no idea what he's talking about." - Frank Theriault. (And everyone else, at one time or another...) "Duh, that's obvious. It would be a doggone architectural street portraiture. Well... that is, unless it was taken with extention tubes. Then it would be a macro shot." - Jerome Reyes "Colour perception, like all perceptions, is subjective. Colour accuracy is not." - William Robb "A little paranoia is good. A lot makes life hell." - Graywolf "Ann probably saved Frank's life by making me a sandwich." - William Robb "(Mark Roberts and Doug Brewer) have a future on the Comedy Channel." - Tom Reese "Dave (Brooks) looks like a burnt-out hippy, and Frank (Theriault) looks like a burnt-out beatnik. Together they look like a Mutt & Jeff version of Cheech & Chong." - Graywolf "Doug Brewer is the brother I never wanted." - Cesar Matamoros "Sometimes I try to paddle upstream, other times I just get the hell out of the water and hike." - Glenn Murphy "Your 'other equipment'-to-big-lens ratio should be at least 4:1 in weight and 3:1 in $$$ spent." - Tom Reese "It has a cat in it. That means it is art. A cat in B&W is fine art." - David Mann "Interesting article. I understood every word. I just don't know what they mean when they're put together that way." - Frank Theriault "If someone shares a good shot, I'd rather give at least 99% of the credit to the shooter rather than the equipment." - Unca Mikey "Stop thinking of it as 'the digital stuff' and think of it simply as photography." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "If you're gonna stuff a sock in your drawers, you probably ought to make sure nobody's gonna call you on it." - Doug Franklin "Film may be dead, but it is still available." - Cesar Matamoros "Even the lowest of the low have standards!" - Cotty (Who should know!) "A bit unsettling at first, but pretty cool!" - Frank Theriault "I can't fathom why people seem to want to complain about things constantly. I prefer to take what is offered, discover what it does well, and exploit it to maximum advantage rather than complain about 'what might be'." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "Some of us pride ourselves in not saying much of relevance" - Marnie "It ain't fun but it usually ain't fatal" - Rick Womer "If lenses can be classed as cool, the A*85mm f/1.4 would be frozen solid." - Cotty "Bald may be beautiful, but I've bought a fedora anyway." - Don Nelson "The 'golden days' don't involve postage stamp sized negatives mounted to girly toy cameras." - William Robb "They are YOUR pictures. You're certainly entitled to want them. Even to want them really, really badly." - ERN Reed "Yes I know I'm evil, but hell, it pays the bills." - Peter J. Alling "Thanks for any answers, especially those related to my question ;-)" - Pancho Hasselbach "I can't find the blocks of wood with two crocodile clips screwed to them. Did they migrate to Bede?" - Mike Wilson "This speaks to the difference between a real photographer who is in the business of selling pictures, and those who magnify their images to 200% on monitor and complain that there is artifacting." - William Robb "Thanks for the warm, if randomly tangential, welcome." - Will Dimmit "Substandard and proud of it." - Cotty "You can never have too many lenses." - William Robb "Taking photographic advice from a web page chosen based on popularity is like taking cooking advice from a McDonalds." - John Francis "This comment is not designed to add useful discourse." - William Robb "It doesn't matter how many megapixels you have. A crap picture is still crap." - David S. "Looks like he spends all day stapling Kleenex together..." - Bob Walkden "Feel free to comment, even before looking at the picture!" - Juan Buhler "It is art, and if the rules were so well defined then I'd be doing something else." - Juan Buhler "In many ways professional photography is only tangentially about actual photography." - edwin "Quotable quotes usually have little technical content." - Herb Chong "Hibble bibble bobble bibble bop. Gubble gobble gabble gip. Mibble mobblemabble mup." - Cotty "This is an auction we are talking about. All it takes is 2 people salivating enough." - Kostas Kavoussanakis "I don't expect the AF to be perfect. It is a tool just like the light meter. Used in a smart fashion, it can be very helpful. Heavily relying on it instead of your photographic skills can cause you to end up with an image you didn't intend." - Bruce Dayton "Just because someone says something is not working properly doesn't mean it's not working properly." - Cotty "I'm nothing if not obscure..." - Peter J. Alling "Laser-printed ASCII art just has no soul" - Marnie AKA Doe "unsubscribe" - Traditional -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
