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Moose Musings's avatar

Great advice Lucy. We are created for community and the size and shape of that engagement will vary. Your willingness to support to help artists ( and photographers are artists) is wonderful. Truly desiring to serve others, even in a commercial sense, is what makes the world special despite the storms that rage. Well done.

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Lucy Lumen's avatar

Thank you so much for these kind and encouraging words! I really appreciate every person who reads or watches and I feel so lucky that so many photographers have trusted me to review their work. Have a beautiful day :)

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Ian Bowman's avatar

So many things. Let’s start with this: two weekends ago, inspired by you and Ali O’Keefe I bought a four megapixel digicam at an estate sale for $7.50. My thing, if I have a thing, is architectural photography. (Incidentally I only considered if I had a thing after reading your “realistically going pro” piece.) If there is one type of photography you are absolutely, positively not supposed to use a four megapixel digicam for it is architectural photography. In fact in an Architectural Photography book I am reading says as much, almost verbatim. But I took a picture of a building with my 2001 Olympus D-40 Zoom anyways, and posted it to my Foto. And of course, it became my most liked photo and a bunch of architectural photography people started following me. Thank you for keeping it real and for your provocative style that keeps things fresh.

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Filter Free Photography's avatar

Love this!

Would you be interested in either being a speaker or photo critic for our small Photo Club in the US? Virtually, of course.

I sent you a note recently but this topic seems in line with what I reached out to you about.

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ʞrys's avatar

So much of this advice also applies to other creators (I kept thinking of writers like myself), and what you wrote just needed to be said. Thank you.

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