Allow me to explain the two comments. Everything is perfect. What
happens is, as humans, we evaluate things based upon our
insecurities. A branch or leaf is not out of place but our
thinking is.
Sounds reasonable to me, in general. But . . . everything is
perfect? How can I say something like that when I know I'm not
perfect.
For the most part, we're all perfect, people like Charles Manson are the exception to the rule. It's only society that condemns because it allows them to assert control over others. This philosophy runs deep and would step on many toes.
I think (just my thinking which could be wrong because I
am not perfect) perfection can only be known or understood by one
who is perfect.
You might be confusing perfection with a need to get along. If you had a hundred perfect people in a room that spoke different languages and none were common, would not some change need to come about in order for mutual communication to come about? It's the same sort of thing, adapting for the purpose of acceptable communal communication, requires change but at no time does it violate the perfection equation.
Learning is not imperfection, it's just the normal offshoot of ignorance but doesn't make a person, imperfect. When people are judged are they being judged by the judge's personal convictions and does this judge apply the same standard to themselves? This imperfection theory is a society thing that keeps people down, not build them up. It's based upon insecurity, not security. You can equate this with imperfection as a conflict to what I say but it negates the message of what's being communicated.
Now, if everything is perfect, that must include
me, too, but I know from experience how many times I had to learn
the hard way that I not perfect.
That's because some button head got to you and beat you up mentally and you aquiested to their thinking
Allow me to give you a set of ear plugs so their BS will stop filling your ears
We not only have to keep our BS out of our ears but we also have to guard against others
I know for instance that
foot-in-mouth is good way to get butt kicked. NOT perfect! All
right, I'm stretching a bit, but I've done enough bone-headed
things in my life to know . . . well now . . . maybe I'm the
perfect bone head.
That doesn't mean you're not perfect. Again, you're judging yourself against a standard that doesn't exist, anywhere. Look at President Bush's speech patterns. Well maybe that's a bad example
Seriously, things may not be perfect but they are life.
Sure they are, you just need to cast off the shackles of societal thinking.
Remember, this coming from a "Conservative".
Okay, I'm knocking that off. I love photography but hate the
business end of it. If, somehow, I could do what I like doing
without wasting energy being concerned about moneymoneymoney, then
I might seriously listen to someone telling me I should consider
selling my work.
And the need to sell your work is? Could it be more of society's nonsense that if you don't put a price on it and sell it, it doesn't have worth? Could it be that if you don't sell your work then you're not going to be taken seriously? And this need to be taken seriously comes from where????? Society's insecurities??????
I have nothing against money. I wouldn't mind
having some more. But, if the goal is to acquire more money through
photography, then photography isn't the goal – making money is.
And what's wrong with that? I make a living killing bugs. I do it for money. Guess what? I have fun doing it. Not the killing of the bugs but the interaction with the customers, driving around in the truck, capturing images along the way and listening to the likes of "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" or "The Brian Setzer Orchestra". I actually get paid
The point, it's your outlook on the situation. If I could have this same outlook with photography, I wouldn't hesitate to go pro.
Plus, there is another reason I can't sell much of anything I've
done (and I've talked about it before on another thread) – very
little of what I've done would qualify as material for a fine
print. A lot of my stuff was done with the little 2mp-4mp point &
shoot cameras. But, oh boy, that 10D . . . with the right lenses
that camera blows away a LOT of my previous efforts (I'm talking
about 35mm too). I might have some (or all) who will disagree with
me about this, but I don't see how the 1Ds is $6500 better than the
10D. Hey, I know I can be wrong. After all, I am not perfect.
I would love to have the 1Ds and we'll all be able to get a 1Ds equivalent in the next couple of years, so enjoy the 10D because "hold on it's coming" as it's very near
In the meantime, my 10D's money was given to the wife for a shopping spree and spring planting
Gotta keep the wife happy if I want her to let me have the camera equipment without complaint
Please, speak up. Say what you have to say. Put links to your
images for our pleasure. Step up to the plate and swing the bat.
It's only a game and we're all players. There's no score and
nobody's a winner and nobody is a loser but you have to swing the
bat to enjoy the thrill of the game
Thanks, Tom. I appreciate what you said. Okay, I'll put my link as
part of my tag line again. Keep in mind that I am content with
having my images as Internet postings.
That's about all I do. I post and share with the forum. I share with my customers and have the images professionally framed and place on the walls about the house
I call it "vanity framing".
