So what? :) Andrew On Fri, March 22, 2013 4:13 pm, Randy Little wrote: > Hey I don't mind if people don't like it. Just don't let Tomoko know. > I > just though it odd that a person would call it pedestrian while their main > body of work is Landscapes and sepia boats. For which there are > zillions of as well (of not more). To me that was just a very odd > comment. I go to this exact location probably a couple or more times a > year. (cause NO PHOTO EVER has done this place justice). Every time I > drive over the bridge I stop and I wait and I record that time. To each > one's own. He I live with an award winning Japanese art director I live > everyday being critiqued. I am guessing most people here have never had > to do a Masters DEFENSE of a thesis. This is one paragraph from an > article. I think it makes it point. Every critique is also a defense. > To make invalid > points is to ask for rebuttal to those points. One can not come out and > say I don't like blue while wearing blue and driving a blue car. anyway > here is the paragraph. > > "You must expect, in some fashion, to be required to answer the crucial > question "So what?" What has your research and writing accomplished, that > may be of importance in your field? Professors will tell you that > graduate students tend not to be bold enough, in making claims for what > they have discovered or compiled, during the process of working on their > thesis. If you don't express confidence about your findings in the thesis, > your committee may develop their own doubts about the value of your work." > > > quoted from > http://www.gradschools.com/article-detail/defending-your-thesis-1577 > > > Randy S. Little > http://www.rslittle.com <http://reel.rslittle.com> > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/ > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM, <PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> ** >> I going to keep my response short. I like the picture a lot. >> Roy >> >> >> >> In a message dated 3/22/2013 2:47:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx writes: >> >> Randy Little's photograph of Mt. Watchman, Zion National Park. >> >> >> >> >