beautiful work…sorry about your father in law…my neighbor passed away this a m.
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Sorry meng. Good on you for your care you gave them.
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An image of Peace River after being enlarged by flooding from the Site C Dam. Kind of a grotty day, but you take what you get for skies.
I used the Canon EOS 7D my friend Ray bequeathed me for my shooting that day.
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sorry to hear that bro.. wishing you all well.. sorry for you loss
you’ve truly established yourself in my mind as a professional photographer…
I’m not a professional. I’m just a guy with a camera. Well, cameras.
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I’m sorry @anon82948922 . I hope you manage to do some self care during this time.
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Are you on pixoto? My dad’s on there. He’s good too. You guys may have been in some of the same competitions.
No. I hate photo competitions.
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Understandable.
I’ve found they are easy to game and win once you figure out audience preferences, that is if it is not a local popularity contest.
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Most people submitted a photo but forgot to write a good local story. I did both and walked away with a free AirBnB weekend. I’ve got a good friend with autism who has never won a photo contest despite being an amazing photographer. He nails every shot technically and he tells great stories in his images. He’s a classic car buff and he likes photographing car shows and meetups. The fact that he can’t win a competition has almost made him quit photography a few times and that would be a tragedy. He is very good at it. Except he doesn’t photograph people in a classic way or landscapes or flowers or sunsets or produce exotic looking images.
I don’t like that competitions make good photographers hate photography because they can’t meet some weird, every shifting, highly subjective standard. Any photo that brings happiness to its creator is a good photo, full stop.
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I can imagine how frustrating having your work being under appreciated could be. I wonder what Determines the preference. I actually recognize the photo. I think my dad had a photo in competition with it. He definitely showed me that picture.
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This is why I prefer not to rate photos of others or find fault with them. I will ask what made them take the picture and what they see as the subject. Then we can discuss how to bring that subject to prominence if what was obvious to them is not for me because the viewer does not share the context of the image creator.
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nice buddy…love it.
cool…there was this old car on my mom’s landfill on her farm and I went out and popped a bunch of the chrome off the hood and hood ornament…it came right out because it was so rusted…cool stuff…thanks for reminding me.
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Love the pictures of the tractor
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