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Robert Spoecker

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« on: December 21, 2009, 02:43:49 pm »

This site name is Luminous Landscape.

Recently there seems to be a rash of nude images. All done artistically in black and white.

They appear about the same as all the other nudes easily available on the web.

I think thats fine, but does it belong here? By what stretch of the imagination are full frontal nude images landscapes?

Sorry but I don't get it.

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2009, 02:57:53 pm »

Did the models have great big tracts of land?
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 03:00:16 pm »

The name of the site is The Luminous Landscape, but if you spend any time here at all you'll discover that it concerns itself with every aspect of photography, both esthetic and technical.

Nudes are therefore perfectly fine.

The only restriction is that pictures of cats are not allowed. Cat photographers are respectfully redirected to DPReview.  

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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2009, 03:09:49 pm »

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The name of the site is The Luminous Landscape, but if you spend any time here at all you'll discover that it concerns itself with every aspect of photography, both esthetic and technical.

Nudes are therefore perfectly fine.

The only restriction is that pictures of cats are not allowed. Cat photographers are respectfully redirected to DPReview.  

Michael

The reply came from a high enough level. I am satisfied with it and thus will refrain from further comment on the subject.

Thank you for explaining your policy so well, Michael.

I don't even know a cat personally so someone else will have to respond to that.

Robert

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« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2009, 03:22:30 pm »

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The name of the site is The Luminous Landscape, but if you spend any time here at all you'll discover that it concerns itself with every aspect of photography, both esthetic and technical.

Nudes are therefore perfectly fine.

The only restriction is that pictures of cats are not allowed. Cat photographers are respectfully redirected to DPReview.  

Michael

But Michael, what will we do with some of my favorites? Are big cats exempt?  I would hate to see them consigned to DPReview.

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« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2009, 03:23:34 pm »

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The only restriction is that pictures of cats are not allowed. Cat photographers are respectfully redirected to DPReview.    

Michael
Or to Cute Overload.

I must say, however, that Minor White accepted a cat photo of mine in his exhibit "Being Without Clothes" at M.I.T. back in the '60s. It was the only cat photo in the exhibit, and one of only two that were not of human nudes. Exhibit cat-alog was published in Aperture.   


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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2009, 04:44:27 pm »

OK, big pussys are allowed.

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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2009, 04:50:03 pm »

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OK, big pussys are allowed.

Michael



Good One.....
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« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2009, 07:01:43 pm »

Quote from: Robert Spoecker
This site name is Luminous Landscape.

Recently there seems to be a rash of nude images. All done artistically in black and white.

They appear about the same as all the other nudes easily available on the web.

I think thats fine, but does it belong here? By what stretch of the imagination are full frontal nude images landscapes?

Sorry but I don't get it.

Robert

What's to get? There are lots of photos here that are not landscapes, including many of those posted by Michael. So what?
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2009, 04:23:15 am »

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OK, big pussys are allowed.

Michael


Oh dear this is degenerating! (Or is it just me?)

Anyway, Mrs Pascoe thinks it is just about landscape photography, so please, no nudes on the home page.
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2009, 04:31:09 am »

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Recently there seems to be a rash of nude images. All done artistically in black and white.



Robert


Robert.

I am really busy in the pre-Christmas rush to get all my orders out, so please could you save me time and tell me where I can find the pictures to which you refer to save me trawling through the whole forum.

Jim
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2009, 05:02:36 am »

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OK, big pussys are allowed.

Michael


Good! I can't resist showing off.

Here's me with some lovely big cats. They are very peaceful because they are Buddhist cats. As you can see, I'm also very peaceful.

[attachment=18826:Cats.jpg]
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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2009, 08:22:45 am »

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Good! I can't resist showing off.

Here's me with some lovely big cats. They are very peaceful because they are Buddhist cats. As you can see, I'm also very peaceful.

[attachment=18826:Cats.jpg]

Can I assume that you are the one [ahem] petting your [ahem], big cat?
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2009, 10:12:44 am »

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Good! I can't resist showing off.

Here's me with some lovely big cats. They are very peaceful because they are Buddhist cats. As you can see, I'm also very peaceful.

[attachment=18826:Cats.jpg]
And they're not wearing a stitch of clothing (blush, blush!)
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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2009, 06:35:57 pm »

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And they're not wearing a stitch of clothing (blush, blush!)
All extremely good. But cats are not allowed because of the Resident Rottweiller.
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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2010, 02:29:36 am »

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All extremely good. But cats are not allowed because of the Resident Rottweiller.

Of course, a Rottweiler should be an easy meal for these cats, but it's an interesting question as to how the cats would respond.

As I departed from the enclosure, I saw a small hill from which I could get an overview of the whole scene. I climbed the small hill with camera in hand and was immediately shouted at, by the monks and wardens, to get down.

It was later explained that the tigers might get the impression that I was a goat and might come bounding towards me to tear me to shreds. I'm really skeptical that such nice, peaceful tigers could ever consider me a goat.
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« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2010, 04:43:54 am »

Well Ray, the problem is the beard. You and I share much the same hair-do other than the smallish ponytail that I am endeavouring to grow for the simple reason that with my wife I lost my barber (she was my barber). A neighbour told me that they are having the same problem with their new grand-daughter whose hair is still pretty sparse, but she wants bunches. I explained that if you are patient, the shorter bits catch up with the longer bits and then, voilà, once in the rubber band you have enough spare material to cut the tail off at a thickish length and even the thing up.

From the tigers' point of view, the beard is the problem, particularly when of that choice, silvery disposition. As you know, those cats are well dosed with lysergic acid diethylamide and are thus not wholely to blame for any mistakes that they may make at a distance. The concern of the monks is totally altruistic, trust me.

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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2010, 03:20:32 am »

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Well Ray, the problem is the beard. You and I share much the same hair-do other than the smallish ponytail that I am endeavouring to grow for the simple reason that with my wife I lost my barber (she was my barber). A neighbour told me that they are having the same problem with their new grand-daughter whose hair is still pretty sparse, but she wants bunches. I explained that if you are patient, the shorter bits catch up with the longer bits and then, voilà, once in the rubber band you have enough spare material to cut the tail off at a thickish length and even the thing up.

From the tigers' point of view, the beard is the problem, particularly when of that choice, silvery disposition. As you know, those cats are well dosed with lysergic acid diethylamide and are thus not wholely to blame for any mistakes that they may make at a distance. The concern of the monks is totally altruistic, trust me.

Rob C

Well, Rob, I guess I'm more practical than you. My partner is hopless at cutting hair (and sewing and operating the Blu-ray player etc) so I always had to pay to have my hair cut, a not unpleasant experience when the barber is female of course.

However, when one is at an advanced stage of baldness, it seems such a waste of money, and also rather pointless, to regularly cut the remaining few strands of hair that struggle to grow at the back of one's head.

On the basis that one would spend $20 every 4 months on a hair cut, that amounts to $60 a year, or, after ten years with compound interest, at least $1,000, sufficient to buy a small camera.

But that's not the full extent of the expense. There's the time involved in sitting and waiting. During the time it takes to have a haircut, I could process, color manage, and print out a multi-image, stitched, panoramic masterpiece.

A similar situation applies to shaving. 10 minutes a day for the rest of one's life amounts to approximately 8 whole working days per year (8 hours per day), doing nothing but scraping stubble off one's face.

Life is short and time is precious.

To get back to the original poster's question about whether nudes belong in a forum dedicated to landscape. My solution is, combine them both, as in the following landscape of a Himalayan dawn.

Let it never be said that I stray off the topic.  

[attachment=19252:Himalaya...th_Nudes.jpg]
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2010, 04:50:52 am »

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Well, Rob, I guess I'm more practical than you. My partner is hopless at cutting hair (and sewing and operating the Blu-ray player etc) so I always had to pay to have my hair cut, a not unpleasant experience when the barber is female of course.

However, when one is at an advanced stage of baldness, it seems such a waste of money, and also rather pointless, to regularly cut the remaining few strands of hair that struggle to grow at the back of one's head.

On the basis that one would spend $20 every 4 months on a hair cut, that amounts to $60 a year, or, after ten years with compound interest, at least $1,000, sufficient to buy a small camera.

But that's not the full extent of the expense. There's the time involved in sitting and waiting. During the time it takes to have a haircut, I could process, color manage, and print out a multi-image, stitched, panoramic masterpiece.

A similar situation applies to shaving. 10 minutes a day for the rest of one's life amounts to approximately 8 whole working days per year (8 hours per day), doing nothing but scraping stubble off one's face.

Life is short and time is precious.

To get back to the original poster's question about whether nudes belong in a forum dedicated to landscape. My solution is, combine them both, as in the following landscape of a Himalayan dawn.

Let it never be said that I stray off the topic.  

[attachment=19252:Himalaya...th_Nudes.jpg]





But sir, I agree with you 100% which is why I am growing the tiny tail in my own endeavour to save the planet and avoid waste of resources! It's the same with washing the hair: think of the dangers of having my few stray strands slipping slowly down the drain, potential cloggers of the entire domestic system! Time and motion study, of course, is wholly on your side and on mine too, and what others see as sloven I am pleased to consider as frugal, careful and an altogether selfless gesture to the greater benefit of mankind. Think of the danger to salmon of too much detergent mixing with the waters of river and sea, not that there are any rivers on Mallorca, but the intentions are good. Which leads me directly to considering the relative merits of a small car engine labouring hard to mount an incline as compared with a larger one doing the same gradient on tick-over... where the greater menace to the balance of nature?

Rob C
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« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2010, 08:58:13 am »

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Well, Rob, I guess I'm more practical than you. My partner is hopless at cutting hair (and sewing and operating the Blu-ray player etc) so I always had to pay to have my hair cut, a not unpleasant experience when the barber is female of course.

However, when one is at an advanced stage of baldness, it seems such a waste of money, and also rather pointless, to regularly cut the remaining few strands of hair that struggle to grow at the back of one's head.

On the basis that one would spend $20 every 4 months on a hair cut, that amounts to $60 a year, or, after ten years with compound interest, at least $1,000, sufficient to buy a small camera.

But that's not the full extent of the expense. There's the time involved in sitting and waiting. During the time it takes to have a haircut, I could process, color manage, and print out a multi-image, stitched, panoramic masterpiece.

A similar situation applies to shaving. 10 minutes a day for the rest of one's life amounts to approximately 8 whole working days per year (8 hours per day), doing nothing but scraping stubble off one's face.

Life is short and time is precious.

To get back to the original poster's question about whether nudes belong in a forum dedicated to landscape. My solution is, combine them both, as in the following landscape of a Himalayan dawn.

Let it never be said that I stray off the topic.  

[attachment=19252:Himalaya...th_Nudes.jpg]

I know this isn't the critique forum, but does anyone else feel that this panorama was over-Photoshopped?  
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