Jeff Lindeman
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Hello New Zealand! I have an ex-pat Kiwi neighbor that makes his living rebuilding '57 Chevy show cars exclusively. Fun couple, their kids play with my kids (their two boys, my two girls). I've heard it said that there is no innate difference between men and women but I'll always remember when my youngest girl and their youngest boy were around 2 1/2 or 3 and I stumbled upon them quietly playing in my daughter's room; she lining up her shoes ever so neatly in the closet; he stockpiling a mound of rocks from the yard one bucketful at a time! I had to laugh. 
Anyway, thanks for the kind words. First, being a commercial photog (and PS user since v1) I have no purist sentiments beyond the inner satisfaction of getting the exposure and framing spot-on in-camera. It's magic to get it right, but when it isn't I think it's silly (and a bit luddite) to forego the tools at hand to achieve your desired ends because of some self-punishing ideal, but that's just me. What's the old biblical saw, "...if thine (sic) eye offends thee, pluck it out," or some such thing. ;-) In this case however, since the birds look awesome in print (even though the non-flyers are still just specs - the ones in flight make you understand what they are) I have to chalk up the "lint look" to the shortcomings of electronic display and the jpeg and I agree (now that you've pointed it out danmit!  ) that on screen they are a bit distracting. But I guess in what could be called a "purist" stance, yet I really don't mean this in any elitist way, my one great belief is that even in the wonderful age of digital, "the proof is still in the print." That said, hey, that's a pretty good idea for screen versions of any subject; if it's a nuisance why not nuke it for that application, I'd certainly do that for a print if necessary. Shhh, I don't want to offend anyone, but think about it, with all the hours he spent in the darkroom dodging and burning and codifying the Zone System, I think we can safely assume "Ansel would do it!"
Edited on Sep 03, 2008 at 07:42 AM
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I think these would be perfect entries for this month's assignment but unfortunately they were taken in July, so as George Washington never said, "I cannot tell a lie." I'm posting both because I almost think of them as a diptych; one hour apart, I love the juxtaposition of the two blues and the striking differences in light. C & C is welcome, remembering I just got off the bus and there's some scary talent in this town! 
In a little bigger version you can really see the birds on and around the top of Haystack.
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