------ 2006 PDML quotations list: Part 2 ------
"I like hubris too, it's really good with flat bread." - Norm Baugher "If pictures were brownies, a raw file would be like a grocery sack containing a brownie mix, eggs, water and oil. Within some limits, you can vary the ingredients and the baking time to make the brownies just the way you like them. JPEG file are more like coming home from the bakery with a box of brownies. Hope you like them, 'cause they're already cooked." - George Sinos "I do mental shots all the time." - Marnie AKA Doe "The best ones are always out of context" - Cotty You know things are getting bad when the quotes list becomes self referential." - P. J. Alling "Some years ago, I decided that it was just as important to see a photograph as it was to shoot one. I think when I decided that, I started churning out better photographs too." - Bill Robb "Frank and I wondered what we had done, other than set a low standard that was easy to exceed." - Cesar Abdul Matamoros II "The 6x7 format is extremely hobbled by DOF considerations." - Bill Robb "If anyone needs to know if octopusses have tongues, see Doug." - Dave Brooks "Can I skip this thread too?" - Marnie AKA Doe "Did you ever visit the primaeval Bialowieza Forest where the bison roam amidst 100 foot tall oaks?" - John Forbes "I can smell the testosterone from here." - Marnie AKA Doe "Doug, we know he doesn't need any alcohol - maintaining this list is intoxicating enough." - Cesar Abdul Matamoros II (Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Oops Where's My Thribble?) "I had a life, but then I bought a computer with a modem." - Aaron Reynolds "When you are shooting for money, you're supposed to know what you're doing." - Doug Brewer "I wouldn't be afraid to shoot weddings with the D, if I weren't afraid to shoot weddings in general." - Paul Stenquist "My eyes are shooting out psychic discombobulating beams." - Marnie AKA Doe "Will probably be some time before she can send an articulate post. Not sure if that is a gender, family or PDML trait." - Mike Wilson "It's easy to blame bad photography on the equipment." - Bill Robb "Sometimes, interpreting the instruction manual is an art in its own right." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "The lab industry... used to be staffed by photographers looking to supplement their incomes. Now it is staffed by people who weren't fast enough to be cashiers." - Bill Robb "Things I can live without would be local politicians and light beer." - Dave Brooks "When I read people saying 'rotate it 0.04 degrees' I start laughing. This is photography people, not precision engineering." - David Savage "It's easy to shoot birds with a 200 -- if they're dead." - Paul Stenquist "So much for our fantasies of having an all-potato chassis..." - Aaron Reynolds "Electromagnetism is very fickle." - Tom Cakalic "Discipline requires limitation." - Bill Robb "I shoot. I don't test." - Paul Stenquist "CORMORANTS NOW" - Cotty "Lots of things are done without releases, but it only takes one lawsuit to ruin your day." - Bob Shell "No amateur has to justify any price tag." - Cotty "Some things flow downhill - you appear to at the bottom of the hill." - Sulu (another quote imported from outside the PDML, but what the heck...) "Marek is a long time Pentax user, the patience of a saint comes with it :)" - Tomasz Machnik "Some people are looking for problems, and find them. Others aren't, and don't." - Bill Robb "I ... do not believe that art can exist without an underlying philosophy." - Bob Shell "Reality is. Some delude themselves otherwise through interpretation." - Bill Robb "A professional photographer is one who expects to get paid for making photos. And equipment in my experience plays a part way secondary to having the neccessary contacts with photo buyers." - Graywolf "Use? Connection vessel yes it is cheap the equipment spiral shellfish mouth?" - Babelfish "You suck." - Doug Brewer "The Pentax viewfinders are pretty good compared to the competition. I realize this is like saying my dog has pretty good breath for a dog." - Bill Robb "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." - Robert Hughes in Time Magazine "The women (in Canada) are quite warm. We bury the ones that cool off too much." - Bill Robb "I laughed so hard I farted!" - Bob Walkden "William Robb insults everybody, knows what he is talking about, and is frequently very entertaining." - John Forbes "Shooting any kind of sports requires two things: Knowledge of what you are shooting and fast reflexes. What you want is a camera that will allow incompetence behind it." - Bill Robb "Some people care about specs, others care about making photographs." - Shel Belinkoff "Go with lots of film, shoot off a bunch, and hope for the best" - Frank Theriault "It's probably hard to sell a magazine with headline that says 'Five cameras tested, they're virtually identical, it won't make much difference which one you pick!!!!'" - George Sinos "We still shake hands up here and live by the spirit of agreements, rather than the absolute letter of them. It may not be the right way in some people's minds, but it is our way." - Bill Robb "The antithesis of pure utility" - Rob Studdert's definition of Art "I always knew you were weird." - Marnie AKA Doe "The word 'inexpensive' loses all meaning in that rarefied atmosphere of high prices." - Keith Whaley "If you can, do. If you can't, analyse." - John Forbes "A tripod that stays at home or in the trunk of the car because it's too heavy to carry comfortably is worse than no tripod at all" - Rick Womer "A heavy tripod is just natures way of telling you to get fitter." - Malcolm Smith "I don't think you're allowed to make sensible remarks of that nature on that subject." - ERN Reed "I saw the pdml, clicked the link, decided that Doug was funny, and signed up." - Dave Brooks "We're really quite amusing when you crush an entire year's waste into a single dumpster like that." - Bob Walkden -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
