On Dec 4, 2007 2:48 PM, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I appreciate the reply, I'm curious about the comment - hasn't > everything been done before? Sunsets, streams with blurred water, > poor people in 3rd world countries, reeds in water, portraits, etc. > > Perhaps you are meaning that you don't care for it? I can appreciate > that - just an odd comment that caught me a bit off guard.
I could be wrong, and of course I can't answer for Peter, but I find personally that if a work is of a genre or subject-matter that I don't particularly appreciate, I find it hard to get excited about it, and I'm more likely to think as Peter does: that it's "been done before". If a piece is of a subject or genre that one is interested or knowledgable in, one may be better able to appreciate subtleties and nuances that a casual observer might either miss, or not appreciate. So, yeah, to an "untrained" (for lack of a better term) eye, it may be "just a mountain", but to a landscape or nature photographer, it may be a masterpiece. I fear I'm not making much sense, but hopefully something of what I'm trying to say is coming through... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
