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[PKR]

All hail to Cal!

I wonder if this was the reason for GW to leave commercial photography.
To avoid blending. In Russian Winogrand is very close to vine grapes.

On the opposite side, Eliot Erwitt was highly ranked commercially and according to him it allowed his amateur photography to be published. Where is his commercial work now? .

http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/the-macallan-masters-of-photography-elliott-erwitt

https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013...ith-hidden-flask-of-rare-macallan-whisky.html

 

[xayraa33]

Mike,

I'm right behind you. We don't have time to waste anymore. The point is to be happy, and I am.

Also some old geezer wisdom I gleened from my gal's blog that she started less than 4 years ago. The only digital camera I owned during that time was my MM so we were limited to only B&W photography. If you visit fashion blogs they all do color photography, so what we did was different, although not by choice.

Because of the difference mentioned above "Maggie" (not her real name) got a lot of traction, and trying to do fashion in B&W with a manual focus camera is not easy and was a challenge. "Grey Magazine" decided to do a feature and a cover about "Maggie" early on emulating the B&W photography we started. After that it became quadratic leaps in followers.





So the moral of the story here I learned was, "If you want to stand out don't do what everyone else is doing."

Cal

"The point is to be happy, and I am."

And I would call that real success, Cal

 

[farlymac]

When I would take my trips back home, I never worried about being off-line until the day of return, when I would start thinking about all the e-mail built up I would have to wade through after a week or more. That and catching up on the funnies in the paper.

PF