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Well, that put the butter on the toast for me.Vaya con Dios and adiosJorge Torralba said:
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Cameras are like bunnies
I'm very gratefull this place exists; and I have spend a lot of time on this forum. I may not allways be very active, but I will certainly hang around some more (even if Jorge decides to change the color scheme to pink and lime).
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FrankS said:
Do you have a link to that thread/threads? I'd like to see.
Jorge deleted the thread as it, well, it deserved to be deleted.
FrankS
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Believe it or not, I think what happened at RFF is a good thing. I think that I had grown too attached to it for my own good. A slap in the face is just what I needed to set me straight again. Being engaged in RFF as I was is not unlike being in a relationship. I felt betrayed by the changes, but now that I've cleared my head a bit, I can see that this is only an on line photo forum.
The nice thing, and really the problem, was that it became more than that for me. That was fine as long as things were as they were, but not so good since Jorge made his changes, going back to running the photo contest and more than doubling the membership.
This place was intimate and special while it was still small and it drew me in too far. This situation reminds me of another experience I had with change:
Back when my wife and I had our first child we joined up with a "baby group" of other parents just having their first child. The moms would meet for tea on weekends and support each other on the difficulties of a first child and rejoice with each other over the same.
The new fathers eventually began to get together too, and met Thursday nights at a small pub in our small town that was making the most awesome chicken wings. We drank copious amounts of draft beer and eventually got to know the cook well enough that he'd come out and chat with us about chicken wing sauce and how to make it hotter. Of course the new fathers would also discuss stuff and support each other about how life had changed since the babies came along. Then one fellow found out his wife had breast cancer and we supported him. Another was having marital difficulties and eventually split from his wife, and we supported him, all the while drinking copious amounts of draft beer and consuming heaping plates of the hottest most delicious chicken wings imaginable.
Well, things change, and the pub was sold to new owners who upgraded the ambiance to a more upper class establishment, and completely ruined our sanctuary. Our group drifted apart. To this day I haven't experienced that quality of camaraderie and such delicious chicken wings.
I'll continue to frequent RFF but not with the same degree of engagement, and like I said, that's probably a healthy thing.
The nice thing, and really the problem, was that it became more than that for me. That was fine as long as things were as they were, but not so good since Jorge made his changes, going back to running the photo contest and more than doubling the membership.
This place was intimate and special while it was still small and it drew me in too far. This situation reminds me of another experience I had with change:
Back when my wife and I had our first child we joined up with a "baby group" of other parents just having their first child. The moms would meet for tea on weekends and support each other on the difficulties of a first child and rejoice with each other over the same.
The new fathers eventually began to get together too, and met Thursday nights at a small pub in our small town that was making the most awesome chicken wings. We drank copious amounts of draft beer and eventually got to know the cook well enough that he'd come out and chat with us about chicken wing sauce and how to make it hotter. Of course the new fathers would also discuss stuff and support each other about how life had changed since the babies came along. Then one fellow found out his wife had breast cancer and we supported him. Another was having marital difficulties and eventually split from his wife, and we supported him, all the while drinking copious amounts of draft beer and consuming heaping plates of the hottest most delicious chicken wings imaginable.
Well, things change, and the pub was sold to new owners who upgraded the ambiance to a more upper class establishment, and completely ruined our sanctuary. Our group drifted apart. To this day I haven't experienced that quality of camaraderie and such delicious chicken wings.
I'll continue to frequent RFF but not with the same degree of engagement, and like I said, that's probably a healthy thing.
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