Re: PF members new photographs on March 29, 2014

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Don, my view of your image is, of course, highly subjective and more a matter of my personal taste.  And often it's difficult to actually justify that taste in a review.  I've always believed that given there's no such thing as an aesthetic absolute by which to judge works of art,  criticism can never be more than an _expression_ of personal preference.  Consider Van Gogh.  His contemporaries saw nothing of value in his work.  And now?


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Don Roberts <don.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I must ask, John, is a single point of interest a necessity for a good photo?  Or artwork?  I worked at the University of Iowa which is home to the Jackson Pollock Mural which has no single point of interest but is regarded as a masterpiece.  My photo sort of reminds of me of looking at the Pollock.
Don

On 3/31/14, 1:00 PM, John Palcewski wrote:

Don Roberts, Riding out the storm. There's no single point of interest here, and overall a rather scattered effect, an abstraction.  The pair of birds in the lower left might be seen as riding out the storm, but at the same time the individual slowflakes seem more like a placid scene rather than a storm.




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