From: whisky-dave on

"Nervous Nick" <nervous.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 20, 1:03 pm, George Kerby <ghost_top...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/10 12:43 PM, in article
> WImdnfpeYZ1CelDWnZ2dnUVZ_jidn...(a)giganews.com, "Frank ess"
>
>
>
> <fr...(a)fshe2fs.com> wrote:
>
> > Tzortzakakis Dimitris wrote:
> >> ? "Bruce" <docnews2...(a)gmail.com> ?????? ??? ??????
> >>news:o9krs5p6muj0b1fk6c427j440utu6p5aie(a)4ax.com...
> >>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
> >>> <dha...(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>
> >>>> Now, there's a payday ...
>
> >>>>http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+word...
> >>>> 503/story.html
>
> >>> So many words, yet no sign of the image that is being discussed.
> >>> :-(
> >> Probably, they will put it in a gallery where you'll have to pay an
> >> entrance fee to see it, or it will end in a private collection...
>
> >http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5315268
>
> A million bucks for a snapshot?!?
>
> I'm not 'buying' it...

}Exactly my sentiment.

Well I'd buy it if I knew I could sell it at a profit, but I don't know
anyone daft enough.


}The image contains zero compelling attributes and quite a few annoying
}ones.

}It's not even a very good snapshot.

}I had to check the date on that to make sure it wasn't 1 April.

}Sheesh.

I know what you mean, I know someone doing a MSc in photo illustrations
I bet they can give me an academic reason why it's worth so much.


--
YOP...


From: N on

"Dudley Hanks" <dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote in message
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> Now, there's a payday ...
>
> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html
>

I want to see the next photo taken.

The one when Thing got up and slapped him in the face.

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N

From: Peter on
"Bruce" <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:42:27 -0400, tony cooper
> <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:08:01 +0100, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
>>><dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Now, there's a payday ...
>>>>
>>>>http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>So many words, yet no sign of the image that is being discussed. :-(
>>
>>An apt description of your posts. So many words, but no sign of a
>>photograph.
>
>
> Long may it remain so! If I ever get desperate enough to have even
> the slightest interest in what you or any of your incompetent
> "friends" think of my work, I will have given up photography for ever.
>


An event long past.

--
Peter

From: J. Clarke on
On 4/21/2010 8:31 AM, whisky-dave wrote:
> "Nervous Nick"<nervous.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:103af738-4eb1-4432-8dc1-8bb9344746fd(a)b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 20, 1:03 pm, George Kerby<ghost_top...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/20/10 12:43 PM, in article
>> WImdnfpeYZ1CelDWnZ2dnUVZ_jidn...(a)giganews.com, "Frank ess"
>>
>>
>>
>> <fr...(a)fshe2fs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tzortzakakis Dimitris wrote:
>>>> ? "Bruce"<docnews2...(a)gmail.com> ?????? ??? ??????
>>>> news:o9krs5p6muj0b1fk6c427j440utu6p5aie(a)4ax.com...
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
>>>>> <dha...(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Now, there's a payday ...
>>
>>>>>> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+word...
>>>>>> 503/story.html
>>
>>>>> So many words, yet no sign of the image that is being discussed.
>>>>> :-(
>>>> Probably, they will put it in a gallery where you'll have to pay an
>>>> entrance fee to see it, or it will end in a private collection...
>>
>>> http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5315268
>>
>> A million bucks for a snapshot?!?
>>
>> I'm not 'buying' it...
>
> }Exactly my sentiment.
>
> Well I'd buy it if I knew I could sell it at a profit, but I don't know
> anyone daft enough.
>
>
> }The image contains zero compelling attributes and quite a few annoying
> }ones.
>
> }It's not even a very good snapshot.
>
> }I had to check the date on that to make sure it wasn't 1 April.
>
> }Sheesh.
>
> I know what you mean, I know someone doing a MSc in photo illustrations
> I bet they can give me an academic reason why it's worth so much.

It's "art"--the brilliance of the artist seems to be in printing 4x5
(feet) on transparency film and mounting it on a light box.

I should shoot one of my pinky toe, make up some pretentious title for
it and do the same and put it up on ebay with a starting bid of 100K and
see what I get.


From: Gary Edstrom on
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks"
<dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:

>Now, there's a payday ...
>
>http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html

"The emperor isn't wearing any clothes!"