What follows are my takes on this weeks images. The disclaimer, as always, is that my opinions are highly subjective and based on my personal bias.
I am always more influenced by how the pictures made me feel than any technical aspects.
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I's curious anyone feels the need to make this clear. Everything anyone says or writes is always opinion: the idea of any pure "absolute" truth
appears absurd - something left to politicians.
the disclaimer is for those who tend to take a review personally........if you bothered to really read what I said nowhere is there any claim of *absolute truth*.....so much for allowing a reviewer to freely express their intentions........
At 11:45 +0000 12/18/03, wildimages@lineone.net wrote:
Immediate thought was to treat the word "collage" as an insult
taking a review personally, are we?......then perhaps this definition of *collage* from Funk and Wagnalls will suffice to explain to you what I meant.......my belief is that this applies to double exposures also......
collage 1.a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color. b. The art of creating such compositions
At 11:45 +0000 12/18/03, wildimages@lineone.net wrote:
.......the Zen philosopher Hui-neng wrote *the meaning of life is to see*........>>> Very discriminatory against the blind! So they have a meaningless life?
Bob
if this comment wasn't meant as humour, it's about as crass as anything I've ever seen........seems not even long dead gentle Zen philosophers are immune from the Wrath of Bob........
Hui-neng (638-713 AD), considered to be the father of Zen tradition, who perpetuated Gautama Buddha's teachings while giving them a characteristically Chinese quality. His story, like that of many spiritual figures of the distant past, is a legend in the sense that the incidents related are largely suggestive and symbolic. At times it reflects conflicts between the two main divisions of Ch'an Buddhism, the Sudden Enlightenment and the Gradualist schools, which did not begin until years after his death and continued for several centuries between their respective followers. Behind these elements, however, we can still discern the life of an enlightened soul and the ideas of the tradition he represents.
Jim Baja Oregon
