e-mail woes

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
For the past few weeks I have been having difficulties with e-mails not reaching the PDML. I have a parallel gmail subscription. Sometimes they appear on both, sometimes on only one & sometimes not at all. After sending I have been immediately checking the Empathy List Archives to see their

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread ann sanfedele
Har!  indeed! ann On 1/22/2023 2:47 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: MARK! *sigh* On 22 Jan 2023, at 18:40, l...@red4est.com wrote: What an odd day! I agree with Godfrey. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Perhaps when seen standalone as photographs, these two images are not "Art" but exquisite documentarian representations of fungi in nature … But they could be embued with the notion of Art by incorporating them into a display of photographs which allegorizes a perception of them … in their

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
MARK! *sigh* On 22 Jan 2023, at 18:40, l...@red4est.com wrote: What an odd day! I agree with Godfrey. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: Test

2023-01-22 Thread lrc
On January 22, 2023 10:36:31 AM PST, "Daniel J. Matyola" wrote: >I received your post, but it seems to lack any message. That's not so rare for this crowd, he was just a little better at it than most > >Dan Matyola >*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread lrc
What an odd day! I agree with Godfrey. On January 21, 2023 6:56:38 PM PST, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >I dunno. Art remains art. An "AI" is just another constructed thing by which >humans have extended their abilities to influence and manipulate the world we >live in. We already use automatons

Re: Test

2023-01-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I received your post, but it seems to lack any message. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 1:35 PM Alan C wrote: > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
One would have t5o bge an idiot to deny that the works of Cartier-Bresson and Adams, just to name two obvious examples, are not true art. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 1:16 PM Alan C wrote: > Well said,

Test

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
-- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan Cole
Well said, Godfrey. I well remember a heated argument I had with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used! And what if the "artist" had to wear glasses? Alan C On Sun, Jan 22,

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
Well said, Godfrey. I well remember a heated argument I had with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used! And what if the "artist" had to wear glasses? Alan C On

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
Well said, Godfrey. I well remember a heated argument I had with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used! And what if the "artist" had to wear glasses? Alan C Apologies

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
Well said, Godfrey. I well remember a heated argument I had with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used! And what if the "artist" had to wear glasses? Alan C On

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Henk Terhell
Ralf, for me the world of fungi is strange enough in itself. I have no need for additional artistic modification other than getting sharp pictures and a fair reproduction of colors. However I do appreciate such weird fantasy even if it is generated with the help of AI. To illustrate, here are two

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
Well said, G I well remember a heated argument with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used & whether the artist wore glasses. Alan C -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread mike wilson
I think there are equal chances of him putting his foot in it. > On 22/01/2023 03:09 Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > > It's too bad the artist didn't put his best foot forward. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > > > > On

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I was only making a koke, based on the footwear in the collection. Personally, I have very broad view of what constitutes art, although I do not think my photography constitutes "art," except perhaps for one or two accidental creations. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

Re: Something for Henk

2023-01-22 Thread Alan C
Well said, Godfrey. I well remember a heated argument I had with a fellow teacher along those lines many years ago. He was adamant that photography could never be art. One could even argue about the type of brush & paint used! And what if the "artist" had to wear glasses? Alan C On

Re: DxO or PhotoAI

2023-01-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That sounds far more complex than my own workflow. Most everything I've posted marked as a PESO is captured with whatever camera (currently Leica CL, Leica M10-M, or Light L16 on the digital side, and even when I'm shooting film my capture process is a copy camera technique with the Leica CL or