Sorry, people, I know everybody is tired of the pictures of the house but this is a post for a friend from back in Ukraine who now lives in New Jersey:
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Opinions, art, debate
Opinions, art, debate
Sorry, people, I know everybody is tired of the pictures of the house but this is a post for a friend from back in Ukraine who now lives in New Jersey:
Clarissa's Blog 
I am not ‘tired of the photos’ at all. Thanks a lot for these amazing pictures! And you are definitely a very good photographer!
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“And you are definitely a very good photographer!”
Something only a father would say! My god, Clarissa, you have such an awesome house. You NEED to take better pictures to show it off. That awesome creek would look like a national geographic picture in the hands of a good photographer.
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“That awesome creek would look like a national geographic picture in the hands of a good photographer.”
– I appreciate the honesty in the evaluation of my photography skills. 🙂 Yes, I suck.
“My god, Clarissa, you have such an awesome house. You NEED to take better pictures to show it off.”
– Thank you!!! I promise to try and do better. This is really not doing it any justice.
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Paying attention to naïve criticism is just like preferring cheap pop-music to Bach.
Again: the photos are excellent, father or no father. 🙂
To explain my attitude: the critic says that the house and the creek are amazing. But how on earth does he/she know that they are amazing if the photos are bad?
Naïve criticism is a kind of envy. Father or no father. 🙂
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“To explain my attitude: the critic says that the house and the creek are amazing. But how on earth does he/she know that they are amazing if the photos are bad?”
– GOOD point. 🙂 But honestly, the house is much much better than the photos show.
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Oscar Wilde said that a picture is always better than the object it reflects. I would disagree slightly with my teacher and say that both are good – if they are really good, but they are quite independent.
In other words, the picture and the prototype are independent objects, each having its own value. We can’t say that one is better than the other – because each is good in its own way.
As to the practical value of these particular photos, they give me a good idea of the objects, and make me wish to see the original. What else can you expect from a photo, from a (the) practical point of view?
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See, people? This is where Clarissa brilliance comes from. This is how he talked to me since the day I was born. I knew the word “thesaurus” by the age of 3. 🙂
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All these photos are composed well. The lighting is weird in some of them. I suspect a polarizing filter would make a wonderful difference. But, I love the way the images are structured.
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Ok, why is everybody so nice to me? Is there anything I don’t know? 🙂
Thank you, David.
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The only thing you don’t know, dear, is that the photos are really great. Or maybe someone just wants you not to know that. 🙂 That’s what makes a friend differ from… not a friend.
And do you know how to tell a friend from not a friend? They have different thesauri. 🙂 That’s a word you know since the age of 2.5 (not 3 as you mentioned above). 🙂
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Yes, I am even more brilliant than I thought. 🙂 People need to take lessons here on how to foster healthy self-esteem in children. 🙂
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