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Sniff a diff tiff, I found a Beagle Shadow!
Originally uploaded by Elinesca .
This weekend, I met a new friend! I don't think he liked me nearly as much as I liked him, but he was very polite about it:-) His name is Louis and he lives in this beautiful fall garden.
... for Pitaen!
- based on a photo by Doug Miller
Ensemble playing is so much fun!
Mark writes that Amateurism is not (quite) the point:
One of the finalists for the photography prize, Kelley Munce, wrote that she used a Kodak point-and-shoot but that she just bought an EOS 20D and hopes to have a business up and running soon. So, she's not an amateur. But she's also not a pro, in the sense that she's using tools that amateurs normally use and she's not writing artist statements in the voice professionals normally adopt.
Interesting question, isn't it? What marks a pro these days?
If Kelley had used a pro's equipment and adopted the tone of a professional in her artist statement - would that have made her a pro?
Would someone with no experience, but with the right equipment and statement, be a pro?
With technologies becoming easier and easier to use for us all, everybody can do great work. You can shoot good pictures, I can shoot good pictures. Everyone can create movies. Everyone can write a blog, journalists too. Today, there seem to be only one thing that differentiate the pro from the amateur: Talent.
And that's much more difficult to define.
But perhaps that's not new? As a Trombone student way back, my teacher repeated time over and over that although my instrument might not be as good as the professionals - what marked a true professional was that she could make any instrument sound great.
(based on a conversation with a friend late one evening at Harvard House of Pizza. I had a palm zire, she had the story..)
I was waiting and waiting. I can't believe that he didn't call me. It was Christmas & everything, and not a single phone call.
He didn't call me until after New Years eve.
"No, I'm just very self-centered," he said. Can you believe that? That's what he said!
