bmattock
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BrianShaw said:
My medication is sold at the supermarket in the cold beer aisle.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
i am done...perhaps premature...
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My medication is sold at the supermarket in the cold beer aisle.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
jonasv
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bmattock said:
Bill,
sell all your gear if you have to, burn the house if you must, but don't ever stop posting to RFF! 😉
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BrianShaw
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bmattock said:
As your personal physician, let me suggest that you double the current dosage and check in again tommorrow.
peterc
Heretic
Bill, you probably do have too much equipment (you were closing in on a different camera for every day of the year as I remember) and that may be part of the problem. Using a different camera every day, you're not really familiar with any of them and it's going to be harder to get your vision on film.bmattock said:
Pick a camera and lens set you like, and sell off the rest. Use the money for beer and film. Keep the old photos around as incentive to improve and as a measure of that improvement.
cheers,
Peter
sjc
it will be shot on film
Question #1 does not ask for a metaphrical answer. That's supposed to be a pragmatic technical consideration. Your answer would work better for question #3 than the one provided. Could you be more specific on question #2? What is it about yourself which might effectively be expressed pictorially?
Fear of failure does not have to be part of it.
S
Simon Larbalestier
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back alley said:
Joe i can indentify with that i've been in similar situation myself. A Creative Spirit is a mean mistress and rarely saited. I thought i was done a few weeks ago when i traded a lot of kit to streamline things to what i could carry at one time....but I have another two cameras on their way to me. One from a member here.
Bill: IMHO keep it all, drink more beer and take more pics 🙂
bmattock
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sjc said:
But suppose I want to make metaphorical photographs? I want to see what a thousand hearts breaking looks like. I want to photograph comfort and joy.
In that case, I have no answer. I don't know. Something else, I guess. Something that is not a landscape, an object, or a person. The things I perceive when I look at those things, not the things themselves. I want to see a poem locked in emulsion and given form.
All I know of the universe is what I know of myself. There is nothing that I perceive that is not within the boundaries of my own skull. All I can find is my own Ego and Love and Will. Love is the law, and Love under Will.
I can never be inside your head, you can never be inside mine. I don't know what it is like 'out there', I barely know what it is like 'in here'. Well, smelly and crowded, but besides that...
I don't fear failure, I fear the null value. Failure is something. When I say "I fear nothing," I mean that in the literal sense. I would embrace failure like the friend that it is. We'd do shooters together.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
gns
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SJC, Good questions, but you might be missing Bill's point (or rather, the point of Bill?). I don't think he is looking for advice here. More...holding court.
BrianShaw
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gns said:
Ouch, that stings!
Benjamin Marks
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Bill: I wonder if any artist is ever satisfied with what he has done. FWIW, I think a critical attitude about one's own work is a prerequisite for greatness. But you're asking the right questions.
sjc
it will be shot on film
Just throwing it out there and feeding the resident Socrates to see what I can learn......................
back alley
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gns said:
hhhmmm...
come to think of it...i started this post about my busted up 40/2 summicron and how poorly i was feeling about it all...
but bill wouldn't do that to me, would he?
?
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Bill: Before you succumb to the over-analysis some have suggested here, just take action. Action (whatever you decide in your gut) is clearly what you need.
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RJBender
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bmattock said:
That's a cool website for checking feedback, Bill. Thanks!
R.J.
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RJBender
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bmattock said:
Those digital IR images you posted a few weeks ago were awesome!
R.J.
bmattock
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RJBender said:
Thank you very much! I liked them too. But the ones my wife and friends disliked the most were the ones I liked the most, and I started really being attracted by something that may lead me on other paths, not pretty paths really. I am attracted and I fear it at the same time.
This was one of my favorites, and it made me realize that I'm moving towards something...else.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=25918
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
RJBender
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bmattock said:
The deserted farmhouse shots look surreal. I liked those the best. Be careful when walking around those old farmhouses. Brush can grow over an abandoned well and the boards covering the well will most likely be rotted.
R.J.
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back alley said:
wow, talk about being ignored.
in a few minutes this thread will disappear.
RJBender
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back alley said:
You're going to delete it?
It's not that OT is it?
R.J.
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it's off my topic.
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