I also enjoyed the original post and find it food for thought (and I am not finished thinking about it yet.)Anyway I have kept it in my files.
Meanwhile, other comments -- frank mentioned comments-from-mother vs. comments-from-others and I just thought I'd share: My own mother used to just say "that's nice" (or not) and keep as many of my work prints as she could get her hands on. But more recently, she's started telling me WHY she likes a photo, or why she prefers it over another. I've found that rather nice, to realize my mother now puts more depth into how she comments on my work. Incidentally, every month she looks at the PUG and sometimes she remarks on whose images she liked. (No, I don't think I'll be able to persuade her to join the PDML and share with all. :-) Dr Williams -- despite Johnny Cash being in the news due to his recent death, I actually thought you might have meant Paul McCartney. He of course is very successful financially. By the time I read your follow-up, I had also remembered Irving Berlin. But I do miss the comments on the list about the PUG. I wonder, each month, whether my stuff is really that bad (so that there are no comments, out of politeness?) or whether it has just failed to stand out. I'd had comments in the past, when I guess certain people had more time to give us these great reviews, so at least I've had the experience of getting feedback from my fellow Pentax Users. My father and my husband each submitted a photo once and hoped to get some comments, and they didn't get any. I think they were disappointed.
