Digital BW, The Print

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:18  AM,  "Editor P.O.V. Image 
Service" wrote:
>
> Two comments:
>
> 1)   Not one of these images is B&W!
>
> 2)   the last image, the one I left the link intact to is simply WRONG!
> You must not be from NYC or the NYC area.... The image  of bicycles  at
> the stop light makes that point well enough, BUT to use an inset of the
> WTC Towers as the window background is simply and completely
> unacceptable in a commercial piece - over 3000 people died there and 
> you
> use it as a commercial background image NOW? (not to mention a war in
> Afghanistan that tragedy precipitated).. Heck, it's only a month or so,
> maybe Rudy Giuliani will autograph the pic if you bring it to Ground
> Zero on  Sept 11... Aggggggggghhhhhh!
>
> I get the distinct impression that I should consider your post SPAM

Don't know if I go as far as your last comment, but I understand it.  
If one likes irrelevant posting and
lots of them, I can highly recommend the LUG list, especially if you 
like Scotch! :-)

I often wonder why some people insist on posting messages that are 
clearly not of interest to a
specific group.  To support an pro digital argument with color images 
on a web site
devoted to B&W defies logic.  Now if the post had shown me how to solve 
all of my problems printing B&W
using PS7 and my Epson 2200, I might have overlooked the color images.  
But, alas, it was no help; I am
not interested in doctoring my images (beyond some curve adjustments 
and a bit of unshaprmask).

That said I did find the post did have a side benefit.  I was not a 
aware of the Shutterport
site.  The You Be The Judge page does have and a B&W category which I 
enjoyed looking at
and will continue to review in the future.

David

"Learn about pines from pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.
Don't follow in the footsteps of the old poets, seek what they sought."
from: IV Basho on Poetry, The Essential Haiku, ed. Robert Hass, The 
Echo Press, NJ, 1994.