I responded that I could see how that could happen to you ( I was agreeing with you as there purpose was to not be warm and fuzzy ) and you freaked out at me..... you missinterpretted me..... so I apologize for setting you off. was not my intent. But... you can't put the genie back in the bottle can you? I also apologize to you for the "put up or shut up" remark to you.... it was unfair. You have every right to protect your vision from the big bad world.
I'm going to be traveling for a few weeks on a big project and will try not to visit this forum.... maybe when I get back all will be pleasant again. If not then I guess I should just move on.
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It might be the heat, certainly the humidity doesn´t help, but I think we might be talking at cross-purposes here.
The pictures that left me "cold" if memory serves, were not yours at all. I was, as far as I know, writing about Frank´s work (you are not also Frank, by any chance - if so, I must be losing it big-time) and I had seen one of his images (Post 524, April 25th, 08.29pm) which is of a woman leaning back. It´s a moody backlit shot looking across her chest and throat, and her head is pointing upwards. That single photograph says everything good that can be said about female attraction in its most pure form. As I remarked at the time, it was one of those I wish it were mine moments.
Now, the remark about being left cold. That was not intended as any put-down either. Frank´s photographs display a fantastic control of lighting, far more than I have ever had in studio work - I was able to do it to an extent, had to, but never enjoyed it very much as I like the great outdoors, especially anything to do with the sea and sand. Those elements and women make great chemistry.
And that´s why I found no personal reaction to them. As clever as they are, they are not my bag, as it were, so why pretend to rave over something that does nothing for me? I never said they were not good - let me re-state that here. The reaction that seems to have spun out of control from that point on has amazed me.
How to put this? It reminds me of a village in Transylvania (no, please, nobody lives there, and here, now?) where the people have just burned the little old lady with the cat because the village idiot told them that she was a witch, using, for fuel, all the books in the library that they were unable to read; all the pretty girls who refused the advances of the priest have been branded whores and driven into exile; the blacksmith´s alsation has just had its throat slit because the postman said that it was really a warewolf. So, an ethnically cleansed desert remains, a smouldering emptiness with nothing to hinder the journey of the eye as far as it can range.
Good. Now, in all this new emptiness, perhaps some of the more insane on this little thread will have their view unblinkered - will not be able to hide behind any bushes and claim to see what is not out there. That being so, and with a brand new piece of free screen before them, now would be a good time for one of them to actually quote the page number, post number and line where Rob C, rest his patient soul, actually took down, mocked, spat upon or otherwise disrespected any person´s image on this thread.
Rob C
