3:00 snapshot #730

[urbpan]

I was hoping this one looked more "horror movie" and less "boring."

Cartoonist Nina Paley posted a link on Facebook of a parody of a typical photo blog. It was full of competent photos of plates of food and other mundane objects, and the text was vapid and self-important. It hit a little close to home, I have to admit. I'm going to soldier on and keep doing the snapshot thing. I think it may take a long time before it develops depth as a project. The next two posts are for the 100 species project!

Comments

[uneko.livejournal.com]

Pfff.

The scope of your photo project is "snapshots at 3pm" I assume that you, at 3pm, pause for a second to snap a picture at something around you. You don't look at your watch at 2:45 and go "oh god must hurry over to the lion pen and stick my head in their mouth 3 seconds before the timer goes off".. you don't loiter around waiting for that PERFECT SECOND to take you 3:07 snapshot.

You don't claim to take fine photos, or Art (with a capital A) every time you press the trigger. You try for nice pictures and generally succeed. :)

You take a snapshot. at 3pm.

pretty sure that's not vapid, self important, or anything like that.

Personally, I enjoy your pictures. It's a brief look into someone else's life--LIFE, not 'the pretty things I found'. and generally the pictures are well composed, and interesting enough to be worth my "hey that's cool" moment.

Plus, you've been doing this for.. 730 days which is... uh.. actually if I'm not counting wrong, that's exactly 2 years, dude. I know so many other people who can't even keep up with taking 1 photograph every day.

So don't get down on yourself.

You're not billing yourself as anything but what you are. Snapshots. 3pm. Plus, urban species, other awesome photos... and more. don't quit just because someone posted a parody of what a bunch of 20-something "photographers" with the ability to set up a blogspot site do. You've got your own thing going and that's just about perfect. :)

Much love,

from an indoor, reclusive geek, who's been following your journal for a long, long time, and will keep following until you stop. :)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Aw, shucks, you're nice. :)

[lexica510.livejournal.com]

Everything said above. I love your photos and don't think they're at all dull or predictable or anything like that. Honestly, right before I scrolled down to this one I had just turned the screen around to show my husband the gorilla photo (while saying "wow, urbpan has the coolest job...").

Believe me, I could point you to Tumblrs that exemplify what she's talking about. You ain't it, my imaginary internet friend. *grin*

[uneko.livejournal.com]

:D Nah. Just honest... and I know all too well how we (art-ish types) can be our own worst critics :D So I try to give a bit of encouragement when I can, especially when it's someone who I've been following since.... I think Ursula Vernon dropped a link to you at some point and I never looked back. Anyway. :)

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Everything they said, and said so well. FWIW, I have an "art" degree, but I think it's total bullshit.

When I was in college, PowerPoint hadn't been invented yet. Art History classes were done with slides, if you can imagine. They were subject to flaws due to how they were stored. I distinctly remember my VERY FAMOUS art history professor talking about a painting in class one day, and mentioning how the bright green in the lower right corner I-don't-know, "energized" the whole piece.

I silently laughed my ass off. I'd done the reading from our textbook the night before, and I knew that green wasn't in the original. It had to be evidence of damage to the slide done by heat or suchlike. And like the story of the Emperor's new clothes, no one dared speak up.

You, urbpan, are the real deal.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough to have gone to art school with carousel slide show art history classes too. I wonder if today's students have more luck staying awake with powerpoint art history classes?

Thanks for the kind words. :)

[deathling.livejournal.com]

But yours is interesting and you take photos of things people don't normally see or appreciate! We <3 your photoblog!

[weofodthignen]

I agree with your friends. Your snapshots make an interesting project - and tend to be good photos, too.

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