I'm Not A Photographer by merkley????

Seems like a photographer to me. The text is amusing and the photo's are good and boring at the same time. I'll be glad when the smart rude thing has had its day its just too easy. It made me think I ought to study Gibbons Decline and Fall a bit more to see where we're headed.

Enjoyable diversion though.😀
 
I just looked through Merkley's Flickr. He's a pretty good photographer, he has his own style and all, and is heavily borrowed from others like Lachapelle. Sorry that I know the name of who he's copying, I guess being aware of stuff like that is bad on his list.

It looks like he wants to put down traditions and pretend like he's invented it all. Oh well.
 
I'm sick of this ironic, round-about way of bashing the "other side". It just perpetuates the us-versus-them mindset which gets everyone nowhere.
 
foggie said:
I'm sick of this ironic, round-about way of bashing the "other side". It just perpetuates the us-versus-them mindset which gets everyone nowhere.
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Yeah, but it's entertaining to see the nose-in-the-air crowd getting short-sheeted for a change. Hehehe. Nobody calls a halt when the elect start going on about the smelly hoi polloi and their awful point-n-shoot digitals. I say roll with it.
 
I'm Not A Photographer

I'm Not A Photographer

Amusing and iroinic. Even if I have been at it some 35 yerars,I admit we all ned a kick in the sitting equipment once in a while.
 
Put it this way: it's a perfect internet manifesto. Nobody wants it chiseled in stone and leaned up against the Washington Monument. It's a small, reactionary outburst having its cultural moment, and as such, is a lot of fun. As are his photos, by and large.
 
Witty or not, this flickrite is simply one of thousands of copycat image makers who are using this 3rd-party social-networking platform to promote himself and ratings. As Chris pointed out earlier, the real artist is someone else.
 
I love it !
It's obviously a bit of fun - and there are some ''ouch '' moments for me in there !
Luckily I do not aspire to be anything other than a '' considered snapshooter ...
I wish I could come up with something similar about us Interior Designers [ Inferior Desecrators ]

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Anybody have a link to his "I am not a Martyr" piece?

Honestly, it's not that I don't like his work. I think it's kind of cool, even if he does get in a bit of a rut with things. But it's garish. I mean, yeah, sure, most people would figure a shot of a girl in a bathtub is good enough, but no - Mr Merkley has flying toast, a diso-ball helmet, a steering wheel, etc. etc., as well as a title describing it all in case you missed it or are on dial-up. He has effectively one-upped every other "girl-in-bathtub" picture out there. Kudos, I say. Even if somebody already took a photo of Dali with flying cats, which pretty much trumps flying toast without even trying.

But it's definitely garish. That's something he's got nobody can take away 🙂 I do like what he does.

It's cool if he doesn't consider himself a photographer. I don't care what his reasons are. But it's not like he doesn't live in a glass house himself, you know? Anyone who scans uses photoshop for the same reasons as anyone who shoots digital or prints wet. And everybody has a different method and goal. How boring would it be if that wasn't the case? I don't feel he is talking about me, but it's clear he holds the term "photographer" in contempt for some reason. Despite the fact that he takes pictures. If I'm going to tell someone about his work, I'm going to say, "check out this photographer."

People are funny.
 
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But it's garish. I mean, yeah, sure, most people would figure a shot of a girl in a bathtub is good enough, but no - Mr Merkley has flying toast, a diso-ball helmet, a steering wheel, etc. etc., as well as a title describing it all in case you missed it or are on dial-up.
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I haven't checked the link to his stuff - and now I'm not going to. That description is enough for me. It put me in mind of a very old (and, by contemporary standards, I'd guess rather tame) Playboy cartoon which had a scene with all varieties of paraphenalia, a decked-out girl and a guy on a diving board with (at minimum, and not much else) a crash helmet, water-wings and a water-balloon. And the whole thing had a caption that just said "Ready?".

With your great write-up and a no-doubt-enhanced-by-hindsight memory, I don't think his actual photos could live up (or down) to my expectations. So I'm not going there...

...Mike
 
RangeFOUND!

RangeFOUND!

williams473 said:
Just one more mo-ron on the internet blathering on in generalities with a sense of authority...
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williams473, I guess me and you makes TWO.

But perhaps you typoed. I'm morMON, it's different, more polygamy.

Hi range finders! Wait, I don't see any deer or antelope around here.

OOPS... KEEP LOOKIN! You'll find it, maybe use a rover. Just sayin.
 
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