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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2007, 11:47 »
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The trash can photographer has the Image of the Week at iStockphoto this week.  :D


« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2007, 11:50 »
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and i thought this thread had finally burried itself  :-\

non the less congrats to the photog.  it is a great photo

« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2007, 18:50 »
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and i thought this thread had finally burried itself  :-\

non the less congrats to the photog.  it is a great photo
Before I clicked, I thought this thread was about babies. ???

« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2007, 09:30 »
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HA!!!   before I clicked I thought,    "here we go, the ride begins again!".
The more I read and thought about this and the other thread, the more I regreted my orignal comments on the other thread.    I wasn't very kind.  And I was wrong.
      When I go and look at my own portfolio... I have to admit that there is some real garbage in it (no pun intended to the original thread).  Even now, I occassionally upload something that, while I am yet keywording it, one side of my brain says,  "this is real crap, man, why are you sending this?"  but,  the other side sends it anyway. 

The freaky thing????   Some of them sell!  And when they sell,  my brain asks,   "Why would someone buy that piece of crap, even for 25 cents?"

      Who knows, maybe someone bought it to put  on a forum somewhere on the web and people are ripping it, and me, and the microsite,  ... to shreds?  LOL  ha ha ha ha.
      My point:   One man's garbage is another's treasure ....  beauty is in the eye of the beholder    .....   love is blind...    and a billion other catchy sayings.    OR,  someone might have actually been looking for a pic of that particular ratty looking, 1950's, kit transistor radio? 
    My wife puts up a lot of my work on the sites.  Early this week she put on a picture of a horse in a meadow.  First, there's  999,999,999.2 pictures of horses in meadows out there. Second, I never posted it as I thought it was a LOUSY  picture.  I came home and even asked in a disappointing manner,  why she put that poop picture up.

        Yesterday, it sold.         Who knows why we put up what we do? Or why what sells, does?   I'm learning  to compete against myself. I don't just do it for the money, God knows I'll never get rich on Micros.  I do it more for the fun and the art and the passion and, then a couple extra bucks. If someone likes something I did, I'm thrilled to share it with them  for a quarter or a couple hundred.
     I am not so naive as to think that all my pictures are art and no one could possibly rip them up.  I'm sure I get ripped up somewhere on this planet several times a day.  So what?   Walk into any major art museum in the world....   you'll hear people praise one classical artist as the greatest that every walked the earth... and in the next room say another one's work should be gracing the nearest garbage landfill... 

same here and everywhere.                   peace.   -tom

« Last Edit: January 05, 2007, 09:48 by TGT »


 

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