Additionally, a problem resurrection.
In yesterday’s publish, I dedicated the content-creator cardinal sin of mixing two concepts into one piece of content material. If a consumer sees this, I’m performed 😉
On the one facet, I used to be explaining – at size (yup, here’s a agency believer in longform) – my course of for formalizing my appreciation for pictures.
On the opposite, the conclusion meekly appealed to readers to share what they respect in {a photograph}, what creates worth for them.
The blending was not wholly unintentional, since follow-ups are doable within the land of weblog posts.
And, as a result of a legal all the time all the time returns to the scene of a criminal offense, right here I sin once more.
This publish additionally hosts two correlated concepts, and shares two functions.
Largely, although, the second concept was solely hinted at as a result of I’m not totally certain any replies would observe even a prolonged publish. It’s arduous. Expliciting why we like pictures, what makes them valuable to us, is admittedly troublesome.
We’ve developed an intuitive response to virtually every part our eyes lay sight upon. It hurries up the method and retains us alive. Or saved us alive when our survival trusted visible and interpretive abilities. In the present day, the alternative could be true. With the rise of AI, my hunch is that survival now rests on gradual, deliberate pondering.
And, anyway, to make progress, we want to have the ability to formalize our targets. In any other case, no suggestions can come our method.
So, right here it’s, the query : what’s it that you simply take pleasure in in {a photograph}? Hope it’s not colors, or this publish might sound drab 😉 Critically, although. What makes {a photograph} outstanding to you? What stops you and grabs your consideration instantly? Is it the subject material? The PP? The thriller? The textures? The composition? The abstractness? The recollections related to it …?
And right here’s half 2 of my second sin. Simply in case half 1, instantly above, yields little or no response 😉
On this web page are 5 footage of mine that I like and have been remodeled the previous few days or perhaps weeks. Why do I like them? Dunno. Don’t ask. Haven’t performed my very own homework but 😉 However right here’s a suggestion to resurrect outdated challenges. You could possibly ship me (at a given date and a given file measurement) 1 to five of your photographs of the month that you simply take pleasure in. And if you would like, you may clarify what you want about it/them. That half’s non-compulsory.
I used to be by no means in a position to observe up correctly on month-to-month challenges, as pictures arrived with totally different titles, dates, sizes … My organizational abilities couldn’t deal with it and I apologize to all who despatched photographs that went unpublished.
So the concept is easy. On the twenty fifth of each month, I’ll ship you an electronic mail just like the one asserting posts to remind you of the problem. You possibly can hit reply and connect your photographs to the reply, probably together with your textual content. After 2 or 3 days, I’ll publish what has arrived.
How does that sound to you?
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