Pet Peeves

peterm1 said:
Sorry but I hate Bruce Gilden's work - I just find it somewhat unpleasant to look at. And his style of photography is no better - shoving a camera with flash in someone's face is not what I would ever want to do. Same with a lot of Dianne Arbus' work, now that I think about it. :oops::oops:😖
For me photography (at least my photography) is about trying to create something aesthetic and even beautiful if possible (not that I often succeed.) 🤪
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Bruce Gilden's work, and probably Bruce himself, are loathsome. Arbus' is a very complex can of worms, and I'm both drawn to it and repulsed. Maybe that's its power.
"Beautiful"? That word is an even bigger can of worms!
 
Tim Murphy said:
Dear Retro-Grouch,

Which brings me to another pet peeve. On social media it seems sometimes that the gender roles have been reversed? But maybe it's bots, or fake profile people hoping to snag a sucker?

I say that because every single week on Instagram I am friended by large breasted women who would literally run into a 6 lane highway in front of speeding semi's if they ever met me in person.
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Definitely bots and scammers. The profile photos of such accounts are usually stolen from other accounts, and they are usually lures to engage someone in conversation to get money/ID info.
 
I recall Noel (Xmas) telling me that he bumped into Gilden in Brick Lane ,London.
Noel always shot from the hip , Gilden noticed this and commented "sneaky".

Some weeks later Noel saw Gilden again and this time he was shouting at his assistant .
Apparently he had a flat battery and the assistant had no spares.

As he passed Noel said ... "you should always carry a spare battery".

Noel said that " he glared at me " :)
 
jayton said:
I recall Noel (Xmas) telling me that he bumped into Gilden in Brick Lane ,London.
Noel always shot from the hip , Gilden noticed this and commented "sneaky".

Some weeks later Noel saw Gilden again and this time he was shouting at his assistant .
Apparently he had a flat battery and the assistant had no spares.

As he passed Noel said ... "you should always carry a spare battery".

Noel said that " he glared at me " :)
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Yeah, but If you do then the sd card is full or dies or you run out of film.

Life happens. If you take it too seriously, as some do, it'll bite you in the ass.

Hopefully by sunrise when my shift ends, the rain will have stopped. If so, I'll see if I can find a picture or three. If not, there'll be tomorrow or the next day.
 
Well, I’ve run out of pet peeves (for the moment) but I do have “preferences” and I think that’s a close second.

I prefer forum threads that have a tight (or should I say restrictive) scope of interest.

As an example, I don’t like something like “W/NW Color Photography”. Or, “W/NW Film Photography”. What the hell is that? Anybody can post anything.

I like the threads that make a photographer focus on a particular subject. The more specific the better. I like threads that could be published as a photography book. Threads like “Prague” or “Farm Animals”, “Clouds”, “A Man & a Woman”…topics that force a photographer to exercise some self discipline. I like topics that make a photographer think before taking pictures.

Anyway, that’s my personal preference that’s close to being a “pet peeve”.

All the best,
Mike
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Bruce Gilden's work, and probably Bruce himself, are loathsome. Arbus' is a very complex can of worms, and I'm both drawn to it and repulsed. Maybe that's its power.
"Beautiful"? That word is an even bigger can of worms!
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Bruce Gilden is a big guy isn’t he? Has he done anything truly gritty like Bruce Davison? I like a lot of what Gilden have done though I don’t follow that style. Anyway I have a shot that looked like a Gilden/Arbus combo but have been too embarrassed to ever show it.
 
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armadsen said:
To be clear, I don't mind people saying nickon, it's them insisting that others are saying it wrong that bugs me, because nickon is at least as wrong as neyekon if the original Japanese version is the determinant of what is "correct". There's a certain well known British camera person who lives in Japan, speaks Japanese, and yet insists that Americans say it wrong and fellow Brits say it right by saying Nickon.
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Brits do tend to be a bit persnickety about pronunciation. My wife is British and thinks I pronounce everything—including my own name—incorrectly.
 
Pet Peeves:

1. Calling a Summicron a "'Cron" or a Summilux a "'Lux." I just skip over whatever is posted after seeing those terms being used. I don't know what's wrong with me but I recoil at the sight or sound of those "nicknames."

2. YouTube / social media influencers' uninformed hyperbole about any camera or lens.

3. POV videos loading film into a camera or looking down into a focusing screen where the prism / finder has been removed.

4. Folks who consider Portra 400 the only color film ever made or worth using, and then they cannot even properly color correct it.

5. Social media photography influencers constantly fishing for followers but never following anyone back except for other influencers or mega accounts.
 
AAlfano said:
Brits do tend to be a bit persnickety about pronunciation. My wife is British and thinks I pronounce everything—including my own name—incorrectly.
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Ni-car-AG-you-ah (country in Central America). JAG-you-ar (British car brand). I don't think those are correct pronunciations, just idiosyncratic British ones.
 
"Brits do tend to be a bit persnickety about pronunciation. My wife is British and thinks I pronounce everything—including my own name—incorrectly".

That`s because here in the UK language and especially pronunciation carry with them strong indications regarding education and social standing.
I was having afternoon tea with a High court judge this summer. Everything was going fine until I mispronounced something at which he wagged his index finger slowly .I was expecting he was going to explain the Latin or French root of the word but he didn`t. Still to him it probably spoke volumes about me. With good behaviour I should be out in five months.
 
jayton said:
"Brits do tend to be a bit persnickety about pronunciation. My wife is British and thinks I pronounce everything—including my own name—incorrectly".

That`s because here in the UK language and especially pronunciation carry with them strong indications regarding education and social standing.
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I did an English & writing degree many years back. I, a working-class "Northerner", found myself in Cornwall surrounded by middle-class students from the Home Counties and southeast in general - lots of extended vowels and barrrrrrths. I always took great pleasure in correcting them by saying that my accent is directly derived from the Anglo-Saxon invaders that gave English its name, and theirs was a mixture of Norman influences and the 18th century affectations of the upper classes.

There's a good clip of Eddie Izzard talking in old English to a farmer in Friesland (a region of the Netherlands) which really highlights how much English has changed from its roots over the years:


Anyway, all this aside... I'm still going to have to put my foot down and say the American pronunciation of "Nye-khon" is wrong. After all, Nikon is derived from Nippon Kogaku, and you don't pronounce Nippon as Nye-pon, do you?
 
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