On the Forum's Value

[rdenney]

Nice troll. As those who go to meetings say, when you have a finger pointed at someone else, you have three pointing back at you.

They also say take what you need and leave the rest.

The problem of a club for the few is that you have to keep it private. Now, how to do that?

Rick "suspecting this has little to do with what was actually written in the OP" Denney

[Doug Herta]

I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small.

Oh - So you are really Norma Desmond pretending to be Cindy Sherman.... Ready for your close up?

[Mark Sawyer]

"On the Forum's Value "

What is the value of conversing with others on a common interest?

[hoffy]

I saw this thread and as a new member, I thought to myself "why bother being involved".

But then again, those of us who use film are in the VAST minority and those of you* who shoot LF are in an even SMALLER MINORITY, that the more people involved and the more the word gets out there, the better off the film and Large Format community is.

But then again, if you want a small exclusive club, well, the last person can turn off the lights..


*I say You, as I am not an owner of a LF camera - I am in the 'borrowed a camera and trying it out phase'....maybe I am the type of member that the OP is talking about?

[eddie]

Excellent! One aspect of the forum's value is the interface of a basically non digital medium with the unavoidable and necessary digital realm. Case in point, the link given above. I can now say without question and absolute certainty that all here are simply wasting their time. My site, thusly valued at $70, is worth 14 times – yes, over one full order of magnitude greater than this one! The internet has declared it and it is so!!!


FYI: My two other domains, one brand new, and the other undeveloped under my own name, are both apparently worthless. Personally, I am not even a blip on the internet , while my photography site rules .

yeah but look at me.....:

www.eddiegunks.com = $0

Sorry bro, had to do it. I was trying to see if they accounted for all the lens you own.

well my "friend" at my listed site www.wetplatecollodion.com is worth $470 and www.wetplatephotography.com is worth $370....both i own.....!!!! SEE BELOW

Over $2000 here! http://www.urlappraisal.net/search.p...ubmit=Appraise

now, i plan on using welly's site from now on.....i like what they are saying more! from there:

www.wetplatecollodion.com is worth $2306.20 and www.wetplatephotography.com is worth $3199.30 i am rich! off to e bay to sell some domains....

so ghost boy.... ......

[Eric Rose]

What's Canada got to do with it? I must have missed something.

[Scott Davis]

Ok- that's wild - according to Valuate, my personal site The Flying Camera is $610, and URL Appraisal puts it at $2506.74. I'm wondering how they ever came up with such precise appraisals. $2506.74??? Yeah, I'm going to list it for exactly that much... NOT. My blog, being part of Wordpress, is valued at $1.11M. But somehow I don't think Wordpress is going to sell their domain at anything resembling that number.

[QT Luong]

Since the OP mentioned me, here's a few facts:

I don't participate anymore actively in this forum, nor do I shoot most of my work in LF, however I am posting here more than in all other forums combined.

I've talked personally to some of the most recognized photographers working today. They told me that at some point in their careers, they found the forum to be useful, even if they didn't post themselves.

I have been offered up to mid five figures for selling the site. I declined out of respect for the forum charter and the work of volunteer moderators.

[QT Luong]

FYI http://www.urlappraisal.net thinks that terragalleria.com is 1 year old, has 0 "Inlinks" and PR 0. Credibility took a hit :-)

[Sal Santamaura]

...I have been offered up to mid five figures for selling the site. I declined out of respect for the forum charter and the work of volunteer moderators.

My deepest thanks to you for that decision and the moderators for their extraordinary efforts.