Well, I'll need to go back and see if I can improve. One interesting aspect to this discussion is what you have termed 'ordinary' - the reason I say this is because of what each of us perceive. The location that you live has a lot to do with what ordinary things are.
I have some friends who grew up in the heart of the redwood groves up near Eureka, CA. So everyday, they live and played among those giant trees. When I go up there to see them, they are anything but ordinary to me. A recent trip we were making up there, I mentioned to them we would be going up to see the trees. They responded "why would you want to go there, it's just a bunch of trees" - I had to chuckle. You live in the Bay area which is much more heavily populated than where I live. The area that I photographed, didn't have any of these things here a few years ago. So for me, it was quite extraordinary to view the area now. There are houses and roads where there use to be fields and streams. I do appreciate the comments you have made - they are very valid. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 11:11:59 AM, you wrote: GD> I find the scene a little too ordinary, a little too busy, and a GD> little underwhelming in establishing a contrasting context to be GD> worth of a grandiose title like "Man's Intrusion". Sure, it's a GD> pretty common scene of not-very-pretty pilings, but so what? It's a GD> jumble of bits of trees and stream and bridge pilings like we see all GD> the time. "Man's Intrusion" should have a much much bigger magnitude GD> than this. GD> Godfrey GD> On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Taken on a morning walk yesterday. >> >> Pentax K10D, A 70-210/4, Handheld >> ISO 400, f/8 >> >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4227.htm >> >> Comments welcome -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
