Is there a reason for images on forums?

[marfa boomboom tx]

Simple. Why post images on the forums?
Is it possible for any commentary beyond aperture, GPS coordinates, etc?

(I left teaching about thirty years ago, because I couldn't get over the 19 year olds problems.)

[Jody_S]

The images are why I come here. No, there usually isn't a critique or discussion of images based on their artistic merit, because such a discussion could easily devolve into 20+ pages of increasingly strident opinions. But the images either speak for themselves or they don't, and as a bonus most are happy to discuss how and why they produced their image.

I have noticed a rapid improvement in my own photos once I started coming here, much more than I ever got from participating in other photo-related sites which usually revolved around gear, not images.

[Michael Alpert]

Simple. Why post images on the forums?
Is it possible for any commentary beyond aperture, GPS coordinates, etc?

(I left teaching about thirty years ago, because I couldn't get over the 19 year olds problems.)

I've contributed to this forum, off and on, for about a decade, without posting an image or commenting on another forum-member's image. I feel that photographic images on the Internet are very poor shadows of well-made original prints. Any meaningful aesthetic consideration is obliterated by the distortions and inadequacies of the Little Screen. But I suppose there are reasons for posting images here and on other forums. The alleviation of loneliness is a good reason that I can respect. Even though we are all strangers to each other, the forum seems to maintain a sense of community that is, in spite of its limitations, worthwhile. And there are practical reasons for posting images that make sense: presenting the way a technical problem has ruined a negative or print, for instance.

[Gem Singer]

Why post an image? Because a picture is worth a thousand words.

[Mark Sawyer]

Simple. Why post images on the forums?

Simple. Because pixies are so darned cute.

[Heroique]

How about an image sub-forum that forbids image posting, but requires detailed descriptions of them instead?

Sure, it might take 1,000 words or more, but the effort would improve our writing (and reading) skills.

Plus it would force us to think more about the details of our photographs.

[Drew Bedo]

If you have to ask that question, I don't think it can be explained so that you will understand.

[bobwysiwyg]

Why post an image? Because a picture is worth a thousand words.

Ditto. And I like them. No more reason necessary as far as I'm concerned.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Simple. Why post images on the forums?

Turn it around - why post text in a photographic image forum?

Just where are you coming from?
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[welly]

Strangest question I've ever read about a visual art.