Eye for Colours
by librodo

Comment:
FOR petdog4020:
- from the challenge description -
Details: Stamps, coins, dolls, cars, shoes... people will collect just about anything. Let's see what makes your particular collection special.

For others:
I thought the "kid" comment was foolish. To assume that only people under the age of say... 25 are capable of making "immature" comments or having poorly rated images, is to be a fool. Furthermore, it is a fool who condescends, especially those younger than him/herself. The 18 year old mind and the 40 year old mind are equally capable of and likely to be immature, if in different ways.

I happen to have lived in a house with a colored pencil "collection" anyhow, and it looks nothing like the neat, orderly image I see above. Where, I ask, are the broken pencils? The extremely short ones? Why are they all sharpened? The image above resembles that of a Crayola advertisement.

My previous post was an angry attempt to challenge the voters to think about the images they are voting for. Much of the photography I see winning ribbons is not creative photography, but neat, crisp, overtly dull, sleek sleazy commercial photography.

In my opinion, photography is a form of art. Art is a medium that in order to remain art, should be dynamic and constantly changing. I see little progression on this site, and it is frustrating. Many of the shots that win are not rewarded for creativity but for sleekness. Perhaps my photographic and artistic eye is not agreeably developed, but I am fairly certain that I have seen a number of water droplet shots winning prizes consistently. Water droplet shots? Taking no particular form, with no interesting title, such images I dub "blank images."

I do not claim to be much better than any of this... I repeatedly enter images that are less than impressive to my own eye, and are confirmed as such by voters. However, I think it's interesting that with the image I entered specifically because I knew it was bland and stereotypical, I received my highest score.

so... boo hiss.

PS: STOP OPPRESSING THE USE OF HARSH LANGUAGE. HARSH LANGUAGE IS AN INEVITABILITY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO DEAL WITH, AND IS SIMULTANEOUSLY AN EXPRESSIVE FORM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. WHERE WOULD HEMMINGWAY BE IF HE WEREN'T AN OFFENSIVE SUNNUVABICTH? STICKS AND STONES...

I AM AWARE OF THE IDEALISTIC NATURE OF THE ABOVE TEXT, AND ENJOY IT AS SUCH. I AM NOT, HOWEVER, AN IDEALISTIC PERSON.

Insemination
by GolferDDS

Comment:
biologically accurate

18/10
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
i think it's uninteresting, mediocre, bland, boring, monochrome, dull

but i appreciate the work that went into it

Message edited by author 2005-12-13 15:05:34.

Eye for Colours
by librodo

Comment:
But you don't COLLECT colored pencils.... you just buy a set of them. Maybe if it were several different types of colored pencils, that would make sense... but no, this is just ONE SET of colored pencils.

THIS IS NOT A COLLECTION, IT IS A SINGLE SET OF COLORED PENCILS THAT ALL COME FROM THE SAME BOX

VOTERS NEED TO THINK CRITICALLY FOR CHRISSAKE



Message edited by mk - language, etc.

Magnets From Places I've Gone To
by catn

Comment:
out of focus... four

My Record Collection
by Shermy

Comment:
I like it. It looks like an album cover. I think it could use more contrast and less gray, but overall it's good - 6

Some of our favorites from Cambridge
by olddj

Comment:
I'ts kind of boring.

Media Entrance
by bmoore

Comment:
too dark. boo bud light. four

Where'd everybody go?
by Younger

Comment:
that number on it's leg, indicating that you took this photograph at a zoo, is disappointing. also, he's saying "where'd everybody go?" yet i can see two other flamingos in the shot

Three's a Crowd?
by Paige

Comment:
the composition is so even though..... I'm not a big fan of interpreting this challenge numerically.