Michael Cash wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:41:35 -0800, Dan Rempel <drempel@islandnet.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>
>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:08:21 -0800, Dan Rempel <drempel@islandnet.com>
>>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>>
>>>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>>>> This is sort of a follow-up on the "New Camera" thread.
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>> Nobody asked, but recently I'm posting a few photos taken at work at:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mikecash.aminus3.com/archive/
>>>> These are pretty good; you've got a good eye. Looking forward to more.
>>> Thanks. The community there is quite small and many of the people are
>>> damned good, so I'm reluctant to post just anything and everything
>>> (that's what Flickr is for!).
>> I also liked some of your earlier stuff, especially a couple of your
>> street shots of Tokyo women. Casting a discerning eye over that stuff
>> may reveal a few more worthy of posting, assuming you want to revisit
>> old territory.
>
> In most cases I am leery of posting photos of people without their
> permission. In fact, I think it is *technically* illegal to take the
> shots here, never mind publish them on the net. Sometimes I have if
> there is something about the overall composition to recommend the
> photo, but I don't plan to post photos of beautiful women just because
> they're beautiful.

Yup, I understand that. The ones I was thinking of weren't just
beautiful because they're beautiful, but rather genuinely interesting
pictures. Still, people's privacy counts.

[gotta go: intesting techy stuff snipped]

>> Since aminus3 is free I may sign up: I've taken exactly three pictures
>> that I think are ok, and it'd be interesting to see if anyone else agrees.
>
> Come on in, the water's fine.
>
> Be sure to click on the "Community" link and check out the thumbnails
> of the shots posted each day. There are always at least 3 or 4 that
> are eye-catching enough to make you want to click on them. Fortunately
> the total number of shots posted each day only runs around 130 or so,
> so it isn't overwhelming like Flickr is. Also, even more fortunately,
> there are only one or two people who obviously use it to post crap
> shots that should never have seen the light of day.

Thanks for the encouragement; I'll post a couple when I get home.

Nobody

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Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as
`all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled
with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'
                -- M.D. Epstein