What do you guys think of..............

[ROL]

I feel somehow comforted that respondents seem nearly as irascible as me these days (oh well, nothing a week at Burning Man can't potentially fix ).

[Vaughn]

Lik? I'll research him I suppose. But this post touched on a peeve of mine:
...

All you have to do is to hold your mouse pointer over the title to get the first line of the post to appear without clicking on it -- then no more frustration for you! or at least half-starve your pet peeve.

[Doug Herta]

Lik? I'll research him I suppose. But this post touched on a peeve of mine:
Why use a meaningless subject line to start a post, that requires people to have to click into the thread to figure out what it's about? It's like going to a bookstore and all the titles have been removed from the book spines. Examples of such titles: "Help! -or- What would you do? -or- Anyone know.... [with nothing after the dots]" Reading the title of a post with the unimportant half a question and then "..." is very frustrating.

Yeah - My favorite is the subject line "Free 4X5 enlarger - Pick up only". The OP then complains on the thread that hundreds of folks have read it and no one has responded. Ya might want to tell us where in the world your free enlarger is located in the subject line.

[Jody_S]

I had no idea who Peter Lik was until one day I walked into his Vegas gallery. I looked around, I actually liked one or two pieces on the wall. Then some 20 year-old woodland nymph-type creature came up to me for the sales pitch. What she said the images were (technically) didn't match up with what I had observed on the walls. And then she told me the price of the one I had been looking at. I did manage to keep a straight face, but I left rather quickly.

All I can say is that if he gets people to pay that kind of money for photography, er, 'photography', I wish him all the best.

[Bill Burk]

This might be what you were looking for:

QT Luong gave a link to an interesting read about Peter Lik in the thread Re: Selling own prints on own site

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...l=1#post898176

[Drew Wiley]

Sour grapes???? ...... get real! There are plenty of ways of making money rather than
pimping out nature like a street whore slathered with cheap loud makeup. I don't envy the
dude - I pity him. He hasn't lived. He's not a photographer because he isn't discovering or
seeing anything. What's the point of going out and missing the light. Who needs a fake world? Or who can improve on the real thing? Money comes and goes. But you only get one lifetime to experience the real beauty of nature, so why throw away the opportunity
just for another damn buck?

[E. von Hoegh]

.... or at least half-starve your pet peeve.

That would be unkind. Peeves gotta eat too, you know.

[Brian Ellis]

I don't think of Peter Lik at all. His parents should be flayed for giving him such a name.

It could have been worse. They might have reversed the names.

[Leigh]

You might get more responses if you'd put a complete question in the title rather than a teaser.

I never look at teaser threads, and I'm sure many others feel the same.

- Leigh