Unfortunately, this picture will be the last shot by Pascal Riben...

[robbins.photo]

As stated above: Yeah...one of the single most-talented street shooters on this forum, on par with Tuna, and you guys want to run him off? WTF??? Pascal's photos are of very good quality. You ought to click on his links and actually look at and study his work. Maybe if you're lucky, some of his skill with a camera might rub off...or be absorbed, you know, through something like osmosis...

And we definitely need more people who post threads asking for help picking out out just the right 70-300mm zoom, or the right Chinese-made $69 flash unit. yeah, we need a lot more uniformity. We must make sure every single person follows some preconceived ideas.

So lets see, The Holy Crusades over UV or no UV filter gets cancelled, the Nikon vrs Canon peasant uprising thwarted before it even begins, pissing contest declared a no go and now we're not even going to have a good old fashioned witch burning?

Hate to break it to you folks, but as parties go this one is really turning out to be a dud.. lol

 

[SCraig]

As stated above: Yeah...one of the single most-talented street shooters on this forum, on par with Tuna, and you guys want to run him off? WTF??? Pascal's photos are of very good quality. You ought to click on his links and actually look at and study his work. Maybe if you're lucky, some of his skill with a camera might rub off...or be absorbed, you know, through something like osmosis...

And we definitely need more people who post threads asking for help picking out out just the right 70-300mm zoom, or the right Chinese-made $69 flash unit. yeah, we need a lot more uniformity. We must make sure every single person follows some preconceived ideas.

If he's that good, and I'm not saying that he is, why does he not help those less fortunate than he through comment and critique on their photographs?

 

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And that's enough.

If users have problems or concerns about another users posting habits or content use the REPORT button and let the mods deal with it. Write out your reasons in the report form and leave it with the mods. We do not condone these witch-hunts on the open forums.

We have many members who use the forums for various uses and we do not in any way enforce a policy that users must use certain amounts of features or participate in a certain manner. IF a user just wants to post photos of theirs in the gallery - that's fine. They don't have to get into the debates on the inner deeper meaning of art or threads about bunnies or anything else.

Leave things with the moderators and don't start these kinds of fights on the open forum. It's not worth it and half the time the user might not be doing anything wrong. Furthermore moderators aim to ensure that we use the ban button as little as possible and many times where there might be a minor problem a simple notice from the mods can correct things without it having to turn into a battle and without having to drive people off the site.

 

[manaheim]

As one additional comment, I'd advise people to watch it with throwing around legal terms. It unnecessarily raises everyone's hackles and 99% of the time the term is used incorrectly.