[Swift1]

There are, however, Bad Photographs.

All too true

Finally! A place where I fit in!


Steve

Haha

[dsmithhfx]

Part of the same project as the carts: wheelbarrows and more! PLAYING




I overexposed this as part of a triptych but forgot to overexpose one of the three pictures so it doesn't match. I'm so good at art!

Pushing snowblowers and wheelbarrows full of dirt around isn't my idea of "Playing". YMMV.

[Jellygeist]

Pushing snowblowers and wheelbarrows full of dirt around isn't my idea of "Playing". YMMV.

Canadian Tire also submits the following:

[Eyewanders]

Canadian Tire also submits the following:

So is this in lake country? Do folks load their potting mix into a barge-train of one-man kayaks and paddle home to their island to plant hydrangeas?

[Jonathan Mac]

There are, however, Bad Photographs.

You reminded me of this site:

You Are Not A Photographer - Exposing Fauxtographers Since 2011

which I haven't visited for ages! It's very good for times when you need either a laugh or are doubting how good your photos are - a few minutes here will put a smile (or maybe a grimace) on your face and make you fell MUCH better about the quality of your photos.

[Jellygeist]

So is this in lake country? Do folks load their potting mix into a barge-train of one-man kayaks and paddle home to their island to plant hydrangeas?

Haha, uhhh, sort of. I live in Manitoba, where we have at least 100,000 lakes, so anybody above a certain tax bracket has a cabin on some lake somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if all that stuff stacked outside was for the very purpose you describe.

I dunno if America really has an equivalent to Canadian Tire...it has it's own money, for goodness' sake.

Also:



I'm on the fence about this one. I spotted it when when I was driving by this hotel (that's how I find a lot of my photos when it's cold) and thought "well, the green and the yellow contrast nicely, the slide is a weird shape, could be interesting" but I dunno.

Also there were no people in the pool. If there was, I wouldn't have snapped the photo.

[Eyewanders]

Haha, uhhh, sort of. I live in Manitoba, where we have at least 100,000 lakes, so anybody above a certain tax bracket has a cabin on some lake somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if all that stuff stacked outside was for the very purpose you describe.

I'm familiar. My better half and most of her family is in or is from Minnesota. I don't understand why people live there. Cold-as-brass-balls and then moves directly into hot-as-thick-nuts, stopping briefly at insect hatching season between. (I understand they're in their 3rd winter this year currently.)

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You reminded me of this site:

You Are Not A Photographer - Exposing Fauxtographers Since 2011

which I haven't visited for ages! It's very good for times when you need either a laugh or are doubting how good your photos are - a few minutes here will put a smile (or maybe a grimace) on your face and make you fell MUCH better about the quality of your photos.

This. Is. Blowing. My. Mind.

[Jellygeist]

I'm familiar. My better half and most of her family is in or is from Minnesota. I don't understand why people live there. Cold-as-brass-balls and then moves directly into hot-as-thick-nuts, stopping briefly at insect hatching season between. (I understand they're in their 3rd winter this year currently.)

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This. Is. Blowing. My. Mind.

I've gotten used to the weather. I literally walked to school in -50C windchill when I was a teenager. There isn't much that can get at me now. The heat and humidity is another thing: nothing but industrial-grade A/C brings relief. People live here because it's cheaper than more metropolitan places, or they just like wheat fields and tractors. Once I get my teaching licence I'm getting out while the getting is good, but that's me.

As for that site...wow. I mean, wow. I don't consider myself great or anything, still learning and working at it, but man, this stuff is almost outsider art.

[dsmithhfx]

[dsmithhfx]

Context is everything. I have no doubt that if William Eggleston were an unknown, his work would be featured prominently on http://youarenotaphotographer.com/.

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/EGGLESTON_Untitled_Los_Alamos...74-620x421.jpg

http://trendprivemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1.-William-Egglesto...phis_-1965.jpg

https://www.vincentborrelli.com/pictures/107875_5.jpg?v=1416437004

[Jellygeist]

Context is everything. I have no doubt that if William Eggleston were an unknown, his work would be featured prominently on You Are Not A Photographer - Exposing Fauxtographers Since 2011.

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/EGGLESTON_Untitled_Los_Alamos...74-620x421.jpg

http://trendprivemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1.-William-Egglesto...phis_-1965.jpg

https://www.vincentborrelli.com/pictures/107875_5.jpg?v=1416437004

Eggleston has a pretty subtle sense of composition that makes his pictures quite evocative of a time and place.

Even then, he sometimes rides the line between boring and evocative pretty hard. There are a few pictures in the Guide that I'd say fall into the boring category, for sure.

[dsmithhfx]

Eggleston has a pretty subtle sense of composition that makes his pictures quite evocative of a time and place.

Even then, he sometimes rides the line between boring and evocative pretty hard. There are a few pictures in the Guide that I'd say fall into the boring category, for sure.

"Just because you own a camera, or a phone with a camera, and you have learned to ape a few modernist tropes, even if you've no idea what that even means, you are a photographer, at least as much as 99% of all the other people claiming to be photographers."

[Jellygeist]

"Just because you own a camera, or a phone with a camera, and you have learned to ape a few modernist tropes, even if you've no idea what that even means, you are a photographer, at least as much as 99% of all the other people claiming to be photographers."

This is why photography is the most interesting of the visual arts, because the means of production are well within the technical skill level of pretty well anyone who can see and push a button. Sit an untrained person down in front of a canvas with oil pants and they will struggle to accomplish what they want to do. Documenting your feelings is much easier with a camera.

Of course, photography being so democratic means that our images have to be pretty spot on to make any kind of splash, if that's what one wants to accomplish.

[stevebrot]

You reminded me of this site:

You Are Not A Photographer - Exposing Fauxtographers Since 2011

Only 100 pages? FWIW, the "infected bride" photo from Stayton, Oregon is local to me (sort of).


Steve

[Bonner04]

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