they say not everyone with a piano is a pianist
but is everyone with a camera a photographer ?
what does it take to be a "photographer" in 2023? ...
Lartrigue's grande prix in 1913 (and later) isn't much different than
most of the instagram or Facebook uploads of today...
who decides, art snobs, camera snobs, friends and families?
purchased "likes" from troll farms? influencers?
John: "Why lookie here - its a whopping Can-O-Worms! Let's see what's in here!!" LOL
Using a camera.Originally Posted by jnantz
Those whose job it is to define words, namely dictionary writers/editors.
Anyone who plays a piano is a pianist. Anyone who takes pictures is a photographer. Etc.
You buy a Camera, you are a photographer.
You buy a Piano, you own a Piano.
” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.
You bang on a piano, you're a pianist...but perhaps a totally untrained, unskilled, lacking any shred of talent, ear-damaging pianist. Same with pointing a camera somewhere.
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
A line I heard a long time ago on a TV show was;
"He's not a cameraman, he's a man with a camera"...
Steve K
No camera used for this prize winning photographic portrait:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...26-gxj8n5.html
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin is an old question
but may actually mean something now
since nothing exists except as energy
kinda relates to my post today
what is money these days
Tin Can
Anyone who captures an image with a camera or a smartphone is a photographer. And the sheer number of images produced guarantees that even some unskilled photographers will capture wonderful images. It makes me think of the old saying about an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters (update that to word processors) would eventually create a Shakespeare play.
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