I've a question for participants in this and other exchanges.
Usually, when I comment on any of the prints I receive I refer to people by their APUG name, in case they prefer that their real name isn't used on the web.
I know that in many cases people on APUG disclose their actual names, either in posts, or by links to websites, but not everyone does so.
Am I being too careful? If I know someone's actual name because I received their name and address as part of the exchange, should I be using it in my comments?
Just wondering.
Matt
P.S. I finished printing today - just need to do all the rest to get them out!
I prefer seeing APUG names used as it makes it easier to keep track of who's who. I recognise most of the APUG names from postings they've made, real names aren't always an obvious match.
Received crispinuk and Black Dog's postcards today! Awesome cards gentlemen.
The tones in both images were full of wonderful detail and texture. I especially like the title of Black Dog's series, "The Secret Life of Shadows" as it is close to a name I chose for my still life series called, "The Secret Life of Still". My cards are all printed and I begin the long task of writing on all of them. Will post when they are mailed.
... - for the second session I had a helper, my 9 year old son ...
Funny, my now 10 years old daughter decided that she gets not enough mail and to solve that "problem" she wants to participate in the postcard exchange on her own. So next time I will have two postcard sessions, one for my cards and one as my daughters assistant for her cards. She already knows which image to send, all she has to do is to make the shot.
And I received a few more postcards. First Mick showed me how bathrooms are built in Australia. What a nice idea. Then Mike sent me a clematis. Whew, have you ever tried to lith print this? And then Jacco sent grains and pebbles. I like this kind of stills. So this round keeps being a good one. Great.
I received Mick's semi-outdoor privy today as well. Interesting construction project, and a well-balanced photo with good tones. Also received Black Dog's Secret Life of Objects, a very nice study, also tonally excellent. Still trying to figure out what the object is - tongs? on an old mantlepiece?
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Received three cards so far this week. A photography of a novel bathroom design form Mick Fagan. Must have been and interesting project to build. (Wonder what the inside looks like.) BDial's card is nicely printed. The composition keep the viewer finding new things within the image. The card from kraker is simple and elegant. Reminds me of an Andy Goldworthy sculpture.
I think I had better make something a bit clearer to the people who reside in the North American Continent.
My picture is of a bathroom, not a toilet.
If it was a toilet, it would be quite a large one. One that you could swing a cat around in, as we are wont to say.
Maybe I'll print a dunny (toilet) for the next round!
I've seen and used a few humdingers over the years. The best ones don't have doors, they are usually the ones that can claim, quite rightly, that they are, "A Room With a View".
I have this book, which is illuminating, interesting and a good pictorial read. I have visited a few of the dunnies in this book over the last 21 years I have owned it, to both photograph and use them.
This past week has been a bit of dry-spell for me but I finally received two new postcards -- Mick Fagan's bathroom and Peter Schrager's Bahamas. They make an interesting contrast having received them together -- from the smooth look of corrugated metal and concrete blocks to the utter chaos of the building in ruins among all the vegetation. Good work!
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