Re: PESO: Red on Red

2017-04-03 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
That is just stunning!


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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:

> A Cardinal sitts atop a Sugar Maple that has just bloomed. A beautiful
> day  in Michigan.
>
> https://www.photo.net/photo/18370161/red-in-the-sugar-maple
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Re: PESO: Red on Red

2017-04-02 Thread ann sanfedele
Love the angle on him - he looks very high church in that pose... ready 
to sermonize.. so clear why he is named Cardinal


ann

On 4/2/2017 7:14 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:

A Cardinal sitts atop a Sugar Maple that has just bloomed. A beautiful day  in 
Michigan.

https://www.photo.net/photo/18370161/red-in-the-sugar-maple






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Re: PESO: Red on Red

2017-04-02 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Ken. A fortunate opportunity. I was shooting in my backyard and heard 
this guy singing. Looked behind me and there he was in the maple above the roof 
of my house.

Paul via phone

> On Apr 2, 2017, at 11:31 PM, Ken Waller  wrote:
> 
> Beautiful Paul, simply beautiful.
> 
> The background makes this image!
> 
> -Original Message-
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>> Subject: PESO: Red on Red
>> 
>> A Cardinal sitts atop a Sugar Maple that has just bloomed. A beautiful day  
>> in Michigan.
>> 
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Re: PESO: Red on Red

2017-04-02 Thread Ken Waller
Beautiful Paul, simply beautiful.

The background makes this image!

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>Subject: PESO: Red on Red
>
>A Cardinal sitts atop a Sugar Maple that has just bloomed. A beautiful day  in 
>Michigan.
>
>https://www.photo.net/photo/18370161/red-in-the-sugar-maple


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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-07 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/6/2007 11:09:30 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suppose the symmetry  was missed because the house is such a focal point, 
and the mountain  somewhat blurry.

Perhaps, if you pass that way again, take the photo from  a point more to the 
right, so that the peak of the mountain is closer  (measured horizontally) to 
the peak of the structure, and/or use a smaller  aperture so that the 
mountain peak is more in focus.  I don't know that  a tonal adjustment would 
do  it.

Maris

=
Well, I like the Red on Red part,  but maybe it would actually work better as 
a B&W. but I am not sure it is  worth bothering with. I have to think about 
it. In the context of other photos,  maybe.

Thanks, Maris

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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-06 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
I suppose the symmetry was missed because the house is such a focal point, 
and the mountain somewhat blurry.

Perhaps, if you pass that way again, take the photo from a point more to the 
right, so that the peak of the mountain is closer (measured horizontally) to 
the peak of the structure, and/or use a smaller aperture so that the 
mountain peak is more in focus.  I don't know that a tonal adjustment would 
do it.

Maris

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 5/6/2007 9:39:44 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Marnie, a bit of examination lead me  to the following startling
> conclusion - there is a geometrical symmetry or  similarity between
> the
> way the rocks and the rooftops. Whether it is was  intentional or it
> just
> came out like that - I really like this.
>
> Most  probably I would have missed this.
>
> Well done. In fact, may be you could  apply some editing such as crop
> or
> tonal adjustment as to emphasize these  lines...
>
> Boris
>
> 
> No, that was wholly intentional,  Boris, which made me wonder why no
> one
> seemed to like it (well, maybe one did).  It is somewhat mild
> statement, not a hit you over the head type, but I felt it  had
> graphic interest anyway. Hmmm,
> maybe it does need beefing up somehow to  emphasize it more. I
> haven't shown it in class yet, maybe the teacher will have  a
> suggestion.
>
> Thanks very much for noticing, anyway. And thanks for the  input.
>
> Marine aka Doe :-)
> 
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Well, obviously no one liked the two  mustard  fields, so another
>> quick one before tonight. ;-)
>>
>> This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed
> yesterday
>> -- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an  accompanying photo
>> to both.
>>
>> And that is  probably it for  this week on my series. Although I
>> have some geese shots (that   won't work) that I may show this
>> weekend.
>>
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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-06 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/6/2007 9:39:44 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marnie, a bit of examination lead me  to the following startling 
conclusion - there is a geometrical symmetry or  similarity between the 
way the rocks and the rooftops. Whether it is was  intentional or it just 
came out like that - I really like this.

Most  probably I would have missed this.

Well done. In fact, may be you could  apply some editing such as crop or 
tonal adjustment as to emphasize these  lines...

Boris


No, that was wholly intentional,  Boris, which made me wonder why no one 
seemed to like it (well, maybe one did).  It is somewhat mild statement, not a 
hit 
you over the head type, but I felt it  had graphic interest anyway. Hmmm, 
maybe it does need beefing up somehow to  emphasize it more. I haven't shown it 
in class yet, maybe the teacher will have  a suggestion.

Thanks very much for noticing, anyway. And thanks for the  input.

Marine aka Doe :-)



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, obviously no one liked the two  mustard  fields, so another quick one 
> before tonight. ;-)
>  
> This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed  
yesterday 
> -- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an  accompanying photo to both.
> 
> And that is  probably it for  this week on my series. Although I have some 
> geese shots (that   won't work) that I may show this  weekend.
> 
>  http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/redonred.htm
> 
>  Comments  welcome. 
> 
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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-06 Thread Boris Liberman
Marnie, a bit of examination lead me to the following startling 
conclusion - there is a geometrical symmetry or similarity between the 
way the rocks and the rooftops. Whether it is was intentional or it just 
came out like that - I really like this.

Most probably I would have missed this.

Well done. In fact, may be you could apply some editing such as crop or 
tonal adjustment as to emphasize these lines...

Boris


  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, obviously no one liked the two mustard  fields, so another quick one 
> before tonight. ;-)
> 
> This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed yesterday 
> -- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an accompanying photo to both.
> 
> And that is  probably it for this week on my series. Although I have some 
> geese shots (that  won't work) that I may show this  weekend.
> 
> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/redonred.htm
> 
> Comments  welcome. 
> 
> Marnie aka Doe  
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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/4/2007 10:53:34 A.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess if you want to  classify my not caring for a particular shot as an 
emotional reaction you  may be right.  But there's a distinction between 
feeling indifferent  towards a shot and having the shot move a person, 
generating an emotional  response.

I don't tire of nature/landscape shots showing no trace of  man's footprint 
because 1) I like it that way and 2) that's one aspect of  photography, 
cropping out what we don't WANT to see in the photograph (as is  including 
those elements we wish to see).

I can appreciate (even  though it may not be your expressed theme) the 
juxtaposition/intertwining of  man and his natural surroundings.  I guess 
what your photos don't do  for me, is emphasize that enough.  The shots are 
possibly too regular,  too normal, too everyday vantage, that they fail to 
move me.  There is  no impact. Out of those you shared, the only other one 
besides "Stop", that  has an impact for me is the oak under the power lines.  
There is a fair  amount of contrast (not light/dark photographically 
speaking) in the two  main components of the photo, that it has meaning.  I 
don't really like  the shot, but it does have some meaning.

>Do I have to have one theme?  As a  dyslexia, nope, I usually don't have one
>theme or one point. I  usually have more  than one.

So maybe I don't understand your theme.  Or maybe you don't have a clear one, 
or maybe it's TOO multi-faceted for me  to get it.  As a suggestion though, 
any presentation whether oral or  visual that has a theme should have a clear 
theme so that the audience gets  the point of it and each component of the 
presentation should reemphasize  the theme.  Otherwise, the point, if there 
is one, can get  lost.

One scene from a movie that has always stuck with me is the opening  moments 
of Joe vs. The Volcano.  There's a beautiful tiny flower  growing in a crack 
in the pavement in front of the hideous Anal Probe  factory. It's survived 
for days or weeks, then get's trampled under foot,  gone in an instant.

Anyway I didn't mean to get you upset, and my  reactions were not a criticism 
of you, so please don't take them that way,  if you did.

Tom C.

=
So? I am still a newbie  photographer (at least in my own eyes). And I am 
trying a new thing (for me).  

Thus I may not always "get it." I may, in fact, be mediocre a lot of the  
time. I am with other shots not concerning my series. So I make absolutely no  
apologies for that. I also have a concept in mind, involving collages/montages  
of more documentary shots combined with more editorializing shots. Sneak up on 
 the viewer with emotional impact and meaning. Let some things sink in before 
 hitting them with a stronger message. And some others seem to like some you 
do  not. Mildly or more than mildly. Different strokes for different folks. I 
am  going to show what I think will fit my series on list to get feeback.

You  certainly don't have to like anything I show. For this series or 
anything else.  And I don't mind critiques or feedback that pertain to a 
particular 
photo.  

No, Tom, I didn't feel attacked or overly criticized or anything like  that. 
I did feel, however, you wanted to start some kind of debate with me.  About 
environmental concepts or technology or the purpose of photography or the  
purpose of landscape/nature photography or something. 

And I am not  interested in debating. Here or elsewhere on the Net. I don't 
have the time or  inclination for it. I have felt that I have noticed that you 
instead seem to  enjoy them. But over the years, I have found it really 
consumes too much of my  time, since I am not that verbal a person, to write 
long 
posts to others. And it  winds me up having to work so hard at expressing 
myself 
(that dyslexia thing  again). I am more visual anyway, so I'd rather show 
than tell.

So I just  stated my opinions to get past all that. And now you have stated 
yours. As far  as I am concerned that is not a debate and now it is over. That 
is what I meant,  I do not wish to continue discussing it.

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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-04 Thread Tom C
>I've felt I've  responded to you enough before. I will only do it one more
>time.
>
>I  am NOT trying to evoke emotions in all the photos. Some I want to be 
>just
>documentation. I will intersperse some editorial shots between those that 
>are
>  documentation. Shooting just a good documentary shot isn't necessarily 
>easy,
>  BTW.
>
>snip
>
>Do I have to have one theme? As a  dyslexia, nope, I usually don't have one
>theme or one point. I usually have more  than one.
>
>But you invited a rant, so you'll get  one.
>
>
>
>snip
>
>I hope to show even more open space stuff as I go  along.
>
>So part of my theme I guess could simply be, stop and smell  the flowers. 
>Too
>many think nature is "out there" instead of right here. In this  area, at
>least, not everything is paved over. We don't have to make special  trips 
>to
>Yosemite to see nature, we can see it right by the freeway. We can see  
>mustard
>and poppies right by the freeway. Let's appreciate what is here. Why do  we 
>have
>to feel that nature is always over there? Yes, some people I think see  it
>that way, that nature is not here, it is over there.
>
>So I am  showing it is right here. And I may call my series "Here and Here"
>(rather than  Here and There). Because I feel it captures it as well as
>anything.
>
>snip
>
>So "Here and Here" sums that  up. And by showing nature in context, right
>next to man-made stuff, I am showing  it is HERE, not THERE.
>
>The other aspect is, well, I do get darn  tired that a landscape shot must
>have all evidence of man erased. Clone out that  telephone pole, move the 
>camera
>over two inches to not show the house right next  to the undeveloped hill
>with the lovely Oak. Is this reality? Nope.
>
>We've all talked before about how photography lies. Well,  sometimes
>landscape and nature photography really, really lies. Sure, I like  pretty
>nature/landscape photography as well as the next person, and I have tried  
>to produce
>some good stuff that way myself. But WHY must all evidence of man be  
>erased? WHY
>do we always have to lie about it? Some of the best  "nature/landscape" 
>shots
>in this area are right next to something man-made. If I  JUST show the 
>nature
>stuff I am implying that it is existing out there all by  itself in some
>fairly pristine state. That it is "out there" somewhere, but not  HERE.
>
>Well, practically nothing is in a pristine state anymore.  And I get to
>feeling more and more that landscape/nature shots are promoting a  belief 
>system
>that there is a lot of pristine nature left out there when there  isn't. If 
>we
>value what we have right here, if we value some stuff that IS  
>disappearing,
>then we work harder at preserving and having more to shoot and  enjoy. It 
>helps
>no one to pretend there is lots and lots of pristine nature in  the US. 
>There
>is a great deal yes, but it also does disappear. And why not value  what is
>here and now? What isn't in some great park, but right next door?  Right by 
>the
>freeway? Right by a development? All the birds that visit the  century Oak 
>off
>my patio? A century Oak that was not uprooted when  this senior community 
>of
>7,000, one of the largest and best in the US, was  built? The birds come 
>and
>go, a fantastic variety. They are yuppie  suburban birds now. :-)
>
>I would say, in conclusion, Tom, you ARE  having an emotional reaction to 
>my
>shots. It seems you want me to shoot my  nature pristine. I would question
>why? Do you think we HAVE to be ashamed of  ourselves? That if we show 
>nature
>next to man it always means something bad  about man? That somehow we are
>separate and apart from nature? Are all man's  works totally ugly compared 
>to nature?
>
>snip
>
>
>snip
>
>However, I feel I am becoming a better  photographer though the process of
>focusing on a theme (no matter how unclear it  may be to anyone else :-)) 
>and
>also in working harder at it, so that is  good.
>
>Like it or not, this is what I am doing right now,  anyway.
>
>Marnie aka Doe  ;-)
>
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Marnie,

Well! You've felt you've responded to me enough before???  OK, I realize 
this was my LAST chance. :-)  Truthfully it was not my intent to irritate 
you, just give you feedback on the photos.

>So part of my theme I guess could simply be, stop and smell  the flowers. 
>Too
>many think nature is "out there" instead of right here. In this  area, at
>least, not everything is paved over. We don't have to make special  trips 
>to
>Yosemite to see nature, we can see it right by the freeway. We can see  
>mustard
>and poppies right by the freeway. Let's appreciate what is here. Why do  we 
>have
>to feel that nature is always over there? Yes, some people I think see  it
>that way, that nature is not here, it is over there.

You're free to choose whatever theme you like. I agree with the sentiment of 
'stop and smell the flowers', where ever 

Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/3/2007 12:07:29 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, still doesn't  'do' anything for me.  Maybe next  week?

Maris

===
Okay, it probably works better in context  with the other shot. Or maybe not.

Thanks for looking.

Marnie aka  Doe :-)

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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/3/2007 11:16:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Back to the photos though...  What is it  that makes these photos special to 
you? I ask because they don't strike me  as special in any way.  They 
document a scene, but so does any  photo.  The one that had some meaning to 
me was "Stop", because I thing  you rendered the scene in an unusual way, 
with the word "Stop" on the street  looming large, and the background was 
pleasing as well.  While I was  personally uninterested in the subject, 
nevertheless the image drew me in  and I appreciated the aesthetics of the 
composition.

That's my  comments.  Not that I'm saying I'm qualified to be a judge, but in 
my  personal opinion, you have one photo that rises above the ordinary, while 
 
the rest more or less render the scene, while remaining quite  ordinary.  
They don't make any kind of statement to me, either of a  scene unusually 
rendered, a beautiful scene or an ugly scene.  They  evoke no emotions.

Tom C.


I've felt I've  responded to you enough before. I will only do it one more 
time. 

I  am NOT trying to evoke emotions in all the photos. Some I want to be just  
documentation. I will intersperse some editorial shots between those that are 
 documentation. Shooting just a good documentary shot isn't necessarily easy, 
 BTW.

Everyone else has assumed my theme is man's impact on nature.  Which I have 
found amusing. 

Yes, some of my theme is that. As in,  no, I don't like they building right 
up to the boundary of Mt. Diablo State  Park. So Stop was editorializing and 
meant to evoke emotion. So is the Oak one  with the voltage tower. I have 
admired that particular Oak for years, it sits on  top of a round little hill 
next 
to the Freeway. But now it has a big old gas  station next to it that wasn't 
there before, and I had never found the high  voltage stuff near it before.

Do I have to have one theme? As a  dyslexia, nope, I usually don't have one 
theme or one point. I usually have more  than one.

But you invited a rant, so you'll get  one.



YES, man is a part of nature.  That IS part of my theme. YES, we are not 
going anywhere (if we can help it).  YES, technology is great. We are here, 
nature 
is here. So you hit on part of my  theme.

In CC County we have great open space and great open space  laws. Lots in Mt. 
Diablo State Park. And lots by the county, and lots city by  city. We 
probably do it as well as anywhere. Or at least now we do, having Mt.  Diablo 
State 
Park here helped. More stuff is set aside for open space all the  time even as 
more and more development goes on. OTOH, one of these days our  development 
may outstrip our water supply and that may be a problem. OTOH, I  seriously 
admire the long range thinking of many of the people in this area that  have 
worked hard on saving Mt. Diablo and setting up city by city open  space.

I hope to show even more open space stuff as I go  along.

So part of my theme I guess could simply be, stop and smell  the flowers. Too 
many think nature is "out there" instead of right here. In this  area, at 
least, not everything is paved over. We don't have to make special  trips to 
Yosemite to see nature, we can see it right by the freeway. We can see  mustard 
and poppies right by the freeway. Let's appreciate what is here. Why do  we 
have 
to feel that nature is always over there? Yes, some people I think see  it 
that way, that nature is not here, it is over there. 

So I am  showing it is right here. And I may call my series "Here and Here" 
(rather than  Here and There). Because I feel it captures it as well as  
anything.

Another aspect is animals are becoming more and more  urbanized. When my mom 
moved into this senior community there were no deer. They  had left because of 
the building. It took about 15-20 years, but slowly they  came back. Because 
they can't hunt within this senior community, the deer are  all over the 
place. Eating people's plants, etc. At first I think people were  pissed they 
ate 
the plants, then they seemed to get it. The deer were here first  and they now 
have no where else to go. So let's live with them, eh? Let them  live side by 
side with us. If we want to keep some wildlife we are going to have  to accept 
that it becomes urbanized and go with the flow.

I hope to  show some urbanized animals as well.

So "Here and Here" sums that  up. And by showing nature in context, right 
next to man-made stuff, I am showing  it is HERE, not THERE. 

The other aspect is, well, I do get darn  tired that a landscape shot must 
have all evidence of man erased. Clone out that  telephone pole, move the 
camera 
over two inches to not show the house right next  to the undeveloped hill 
with the lovely Oak. Is this reality? Nope.  

We've all talked before about how photography lies. Well,  sometimes 
landscape and nature photography really, really lies. Sure, I like  pretty 
nature/landscape photo

Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
Sorry, still doesn't 'do' anything for me.  Maybe next week?

Maris

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, obviously no one liked the two mustard  fields, so another
> quick one before tonight. ;-)
> 
> This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed
> yesterday -- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an
> accompanying photo to both. 
> 
> And that is  probably it for this week on my series. Although I have
> some geese shots (that  won't work) that I may show this  weekend.
> 
> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/redonred.htm
> 
> Comments  welcome.
> 
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RE: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Tom C
>Well, obviously no one liked the two mustard  fields, so another quick one
>before tonight. ;-)
>
>This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed 
>yesterday
>-- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an accompanying photo to both.
>
>And that is  probably it for this week on my series. Although I have some
>geese shots (that  won't work) that I may show this  weekend.
>
>http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/redonred.htm
>
>Comments  welcome.
>
>Marnie aka Doe
>

May I rain on your parade? :-) I'm doing so in all sincerity, not being mean 
natured.

If your purpose is to document man's intrusion on nature, then I think 
you've accomplished that.  I have to admit I don't quite understand the 
point of it, because 1) we ARE part of nature and 2) we obviously modify our 
environment more than any other species on the planet (I guess bovine and 
termite flatuence takes 2nd and 3rd).  The Red on Red shot leaves me 
thinking, "OK, so what? We all live in man-made domociles. Another 
neighborhood built near a mountain.  Neigborhoods have to be built 
somewhere."  The very fact that you have a digital camera that is is sitting 
upon a high peak of 200+ years (if not 1000's)  of technological 
development, allowing you to record the intrusion seems rather circular. :-) 
  Is there a point that I'm missing or not getting?

Back to the photos though...  What is it that makes these photos special to 
you? I ask because they don't strike me as special in any way.  They 
document a scene, but so does any photo.  The one that had some meaning to 
me was "Stop", because I thing you rendered the scene in an unusual way, 
with the word "Stop" on the street looming large, and the background was 
pleasing as well.  While I was personally uninterested in the subject, 
nevertheless the image drew me in and I appreciated the aesthetics of the 
composition.

That's my comments.  Not that I'm saying I'm qualified to be a judge, but in 
my personal opinion, you have one photo that rises above the ordinary, while 
the rest more or less render the scene, while remaining quite ordinary.  
They don't make any kind of statement to me, either of a scene unusually 
rendered, a beautiful scene or an ugly scene.  They evoke no emotions.

Tom C.



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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 5/3/2007 9:40:16 A.M. Pacific  Daylight Time, 
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"Bulldozers and explosives will be  used as necessary".

Jack


Heeheehee. It does sort  of look like that, huh? LOL. Actually, that is the 
coal striping mining area  behind Black Diamond Mine. And probably the boundary 
of Mt. Diablo State Park.  They are building right up to the edge of it, in 
other words.

Marnie aka  Doe :-)

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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Jack Davis
"Bulldozers and explosives will be used as necessary".

Jack
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> Well, obviously no one liked the two mustard  fields, so another
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> This goes with the  pleasant pastoral scene of Mt. Diablo I showed
> yesterday 
> -- an accompanying  photo. Stop will also be an accompanying photo to
> both.
> 
> And that is  probably it for this week on my series. Although I have
> some 
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Re: PESO - Red on Red

2007-05-03 Thread Fernando Terrazzino
Marnie, I enjoyed the whole series (probably more like a GESO than
separated PESOs). Just for the record, Mustard Field #2 is one of my
favorites.

On 5/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Well, obviously no one liked the two mustard  fields, so another quick one
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>
> And that is  probably it for this week on my series. Although I have some
> geese shots (that  won't work) that I may show this  weekend.
>
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