Originally posted by niamerT I, for one, am tired of seeing snapshots of people's kids.
I'm sure you think your kid is the best thing to grace the face of this Earth, but it's just another kid to the rest of us.
I'm sure "My snapshot" is one of the photo's that offends you to the point that you felt it necessary to belittle someone else's work... but obviously before you decided to open your mouth and voice your opinion, you didn't take the time to think that for many of us, our children are the only consistent subject we get to shoot? My guess is that you didn't.
I would love it if I could take off and shoot whenever I could, picking the subject matter I wanted, taking the time to thoroughly think though what I'm going to shoot and make it happen. In reality, I own a small business, I try to stay fit and most importantly I spend my remaining free time with my family. So, I'm sorry my personal life ruined your day.
I shoot as much as I can, when I can, like everyone else on this forum who's HOBBY is photography. I try to get up early, I try to break away on vacation to shoot during good light hours and I certainly try to shoot a variety of subjects, when I can. But reality dictates that the majority of my shots are usually going to be mid day, rushed and taken when whatever subject is in front of my lens at that given moment. And that subject is usually my eight year old.
My daughter plays a huge part in my development as a photographer. She's readily available. I usually take my time with her. She's patient enough to allow me to bracket, adjust composition and work on different techniques.
There are many pictures in these contests that are not really my cup of tea either, but I appreciate them taking the time to post them and let me see into a little bit of their life. As long as it fits within the rules, who gives a #$%t what someone else posts.
My suggestion to you, is to think before you make blanket, rude statements....
and for the post about photography clubs.... I've belonged to several clubs in the past too. I've had good an bad teachers. I've been told some pretty idiotic things by people who feel their opinions are the word of god...but the one thing that I has always come back to, was from my high school art teacher, who told us that art is what you interpret of a subject, regardless of the subject.