Hell Robert, I do have to admit that your reviews were very close to what I was thinking. I too love Chris' photos of his Mum. She is a lovely woman, and doesn't look a day over 69. I guess it was the CC info that threw me off. You see, I lost a credit card earlier this month and didn't discover it missing for 3 weeks! I've never been a ditz until this year. And though I am speeding toward my 60's headlong, I will always blame everything on my meds and not my age! I too have been quite remiss in doing reviews even though many of the galleries these past 18 months have been amazing. Currently, I have been in awe of Emily's Niagara Falls photographs. Though she plays them down by referring to them as postcard shots. Tsk, tsk, Emily. They are powerful. Also, Chris, I too love your photos of your Mum. I know you will always cherish them as your Mum cherishes you for all the care you lovingly show to her. She is a woman of great beauty, grace and secrets of trials no one else has endured in quite the same way she has. I would promise to do better in reviewing the galleries from now on, but I've made that promise before. I will promise to try harder to keep the other promise. Sorry if I babble. Have a one sided headache. Right side. Is that the artistic side with prose and grace of speach? I forget. It's the meds! ;-) Shyrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Earnest" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 1:25:20 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Gallery? >From: Shyrell Melara <shyrellmelara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Gallery >I'm sure you meant this for Emily privately. Why? Do you think I would only praise Em's work in private? Do you think the review was too personal? I don't just look at photographs. I eat them. Photographs are food for me. And much like shopping for dinner, I am picky about what I eat. That is why I don't review the gallery very often. I don't often see anything that I care to consume. To let it become part of me. If I were to compare photographs to wines, sometimes I can be drawn to a vintage because I know the history of the vineyard. Such as the case of Chris's photograph of his mother. I have a bit of history with this photographer and because of that feel like I might have an insight as to the forces that weighed on his finger as he pushed the shutter. And I have tremendous respect for those forces and feel them to be a very positive thing in his case. Everyone brings their own issues to the table when they view a photo. The collision of all your life experiences blending with the intrusion onto the back of your eyeball of a new visual/virtual experience creates something new in the world. Sometimes that collision can effect growth, sometimes decay. Sometimes 18% grey. r
