User talk:Foroa/gallery2007
Foroa: great pictures - building, statues, plaques, and more![edit]
- Hi Foroa,
- I enjoy and appreciate your images and your contribution to the community. I note that you share mostly large human artifacts - building, statues, plaques - except for one day, Thu July 12 2007. Hmm ... I wonder why we share recognizable things, but I also wonder if your personal photography collection also has scenes where there aren't recognizable human contsructs to "document", but inform, enhance, and represent your life's experience, visually, more so than the catalog of buildings, et cetera? Otherwise, how are you enjoying your Sony DSC-H9 digital camera?
- Click! Love and hugs, Peter Blaise, Minolta Rokkor Alpha DiMage Photographer [1] (Konica Minolta Sony in there somewhere!)
In a hurry, a partial reply: my case in a nutshell, copy/pasted from elsewere. The rest will follow later.
I used to be a "heavy" photoamateur with extensive equipment (6x9 cm film format, aspherical lenses, ...), specialised in candid, abstract and low light photography. Recently, I purchased a low/midrange digital camera (Sony H9) and I joined the commons with the intention to deliver encyclopedic photomaterial.
I started making series of photo's of buildings as I felt this was the biggest need. No "postcard" type of photographs, but more encyclopedic type of photo's. Not that I enjoy that particularly, but that seemed to correspond with the most pressing needs. I deliver 100 to 200 photo's per month.
So basically, the artistic quality of the photo's is (unfortunately) the least of my priorities, well behind the encyclopedic, documentational and productivity aspects. Currently, I don't want to spend my time on trying to get QI or FP awards, and frankly, I don't feel a need for obtaining a quality label (I am not overkeen on labels). So you could state that I am not "directly" concerned by this discussion.
On the other hand, as I am travelling quite a lot in my region, I am willing to make pictures of a specific object when there is a specific need as support for an article (after all, commons is a "server"). So my question is: how can I make my goodwill and capabilities known to the others without having to spend quite some time on QI or FP award circuitry. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to get assignments as I see work for twenty years to come, I just want to help people if there is a real need, let's call it community work.
In the mean time, if you have more detailed and more specific questions, just fire them. --Foroa 17:05, 7 December 2007 (UTC)