Hi Gabriel,
I am among those who never saw your gallery, but once I did have the opportunity to see a great image from you at one of the threads I entered. It seems to me that RFF is trying to recover now from some kind of "imagery cold" it got with the switching of ownership.
This recovery is gaining momentum.
Although we hadn't the opportunity to acquint each other at the threads more closely, I notice that since you joined RFF at 2005 you have posted some 5500 posts. This alone speaks about you.
Both moderators and members seem to suffer from time to time from a kind of tiredness frustration, or frustrating tyredness, which comes naturally due to our high emotional involvement. At such situations we may tend to see only the negative trees and skeep the forest.
So, perhaps you could have a short rest if needed, and have a fresh restart concerning the image upload, to join forces with all other members doing their best to promote imagery. After all it is upon us, the members, first of all. No one has ever told me don't post this image, or don't discuss it, etc.
The past is over, for good or for bad, but it is over. Give yourself and us a new opportunity for all of us, you included, to benefit from. It will be a real pitty to loose the images from a photographer of your skill, or for this case any member giving up out of frustration.
It is my deep feeling that RFF is a great website, very dynamic and continuously changing. Like you I am here since 2005 and have seen a lot of good people leaving and a lot of good people entering. Have a coffee, smile to yourself. Not every one is able to do what you do.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS
Now to a different issue, yet related to why I never clicked Gallery, nor saw Gabriel's gallery ever.
Beyond my explanations, there are deeper reasons.
By the 90's decade I have been professionally involved with phtography. By the beggining of the 2000 I happed to loose my way, due to several personal circumstances. By 2005 when I joined RFF I did know out there there is a great and wide world awaiting for me. But it required me a radical change of gear and mind status. I needed a lot of answers, and first of all the right questions.
Now, and I have posted it a month or two ago, I started to became image centered, instead of gear centered. And this explains the late start of my gallery, which includes only my new attitude, which I hope will sharpen and sharpen.
Upon becoming image centered, I am very hungry to see other's photos, to enrich myself. We all are a kind of world network of spyes, reporting locations, people and ways of seeing.
This doesn't mean I have lost any interest in gear, and for sure not in the general issues of photography. Just my center of attention has shifted.
Cameras are to be used. Perhaps many other folks here will go the same transformation towards the final image. In any case I first of all respect the right of all our folks to speak about whatever they like to, and it doesn't hynder me at all.
