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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by clay harmon
    Dude,

    That is El Capitan, not Half-Dome. I'm a climber, I know these things.
    Well, once you've seen one cliched landmark with the cliched ironic cars in the forground, you've seen them all.
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by Darin Boville
    Hey! That's *my* list! But you forgot "Surf with rocks"...

    --Darin
    Your list of cliches or of best-sellers ? :-)

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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by clay harmon
    Dude,

    That is El Capitan, not Half-Dome. I'm a climber, I know these things.
    oh well - same overpopulated park... :-)
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Got that right.

    Speaking of cliches, how about the self conscious and uncomfortable looking naked girlfriend pics that sprout like weeds all over the net?

    Quote Originally Posted by tim atherton
    oh well - same overpopulated park... :-)

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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Anything in B&W
    Anything in color
    Children
    Animals
    Old people
    Beautiful women
    Ugly women
    Any man
    Anything hand colored
    Anything thats been tweaked in photoshop
    Anything that dosen't move
    Anything that does move
    Portraits
    Landscapes
    Abstracts
    Architecture
    Other people's art
    Your own art
    Anything that makes you laugh
    Anything that makes you weep
    Anything thats teenie weenie
    Anything with texture
    Anything taken with a Goerz,Ilex, Wollensak, Kodak, Voightlander, Schneider, Zeiss, Rodenstock,Fuji, Congo, Agfa, Nikkor lens, or a pinhole
    Anything taken with an old uncoated lens
    Anything taken with a new multicoated lens
    Anything taken with a single coated lens
    Anything taken with wide, normal or long lenses
    Anyting thats been shot with a filter
    Anything that hasn't been shot through a filter
    Anything thats living
    Anything thats dead and/or decaying, especially Meatyard
    Anything with clouds in it
    Anything with water in it
    Anything without water and/or clouds in it
    Anything thats an alternative process
    Anything thats a traditional process
    Everything digital or a digital hybred
    Anything done by well known photographers
    Anything done by unknown photographers

    Lets see...what and who did I leave out?

    Anything seen by eyes that prejudge subjects as being overdone cliche!

    Cheers!
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by John Kasaian
    Anything in B&W
    Anything in color
    Children
    Animals
    Old people
    Beautiful women
    Ugly women
    Any man
    Anything hand colored
    Anything thats been tweaked in photoshop
    Anything that dosen't move
    Anything that does move
    Portraits
    Landscapes
    Abstracts
    Architecture
    Other people's art
    Your own art
    Anything that makes you laugh
    Anything that makes you weep
    Anything thats teenie weenie
    Anything with texture
    Anything taken with a Goerz,Ilex, Wollensak, Kodak, Voightlander, Schneider, Zeiss, Rodenstock,Fuji, Congo, Agfa, Nikkor lens, or a pinhole
    Anything taken with an old uncoated lens
    Anything taken with a new multicoated lens
    Anything taken with a single coated lens
    Anything taken with wide, normal or long lenses
    Anyting thats been shot with a filter
    Anything that hasn't been shot through a filter
    Anything thats living
    Anything thats dead and/or decaying, especially Meatyard
    Anything with clouds in it
    Anything with water in it
    Anything without water and/or clouds in it
    Anything thats an alternative process
    Anything thats a traditional process
    Everything digital or a digital hybred
    Anything done by well known photographers
    Anything done by unknown photographers

    Lets see...what and who did I leave out?

    Anything seen by eyes that prejudge subjects as being overdone cliche!

    Cheers!
    Hmmm. Looks like the only thing you left out would be

    All that you touch
    All that you see
    All that you taste
    All you feel.
    All that you love
    All that you hate
    All you distrust
    All you save.
    All that you give
    All that you deal
    All that you buy,
    beg, borrow or steal.
    All you create
    All you destroy
    All that you do
    All that you say.
    All that you eat
    And everyone you meet
    All that you slight
    And everyone you fight.
    All that is now
    All that is gone
    All that's to come

    --Darin

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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by QT Luong
    Your list of cliches or of best-sellers ? :-)
    Oh, that hurts, QT, that hurts!

    --Darin

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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Tourists can walk the ladders up Half Dome. Only Climbers can make it up ElCap.

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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Quote Originally Posted by Darin Boville
    Hmmm. Looks like the only thing you left out would be

    All that you touch
    All that you see
    All that you taste
    All you feel.
    All that you love
    All that you hate
    All you distrust
    All you save.
    All that you give
    All that you deal
    All that you buy,
    beg, borrow or steal.
    All you create
    All you destroy
    All that you do
    All that you say.
    All that you eat
    And everyone you meet
    All that you slight
    And everyone you fight.
    All that is now
    All that is gone
    All that's to come

    --Darin
    ...and everything under the sun!
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Actually, the back of El Cap is a flat plateau that is accessible from the Tioga Pass road without much elevation difference.

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