love ya, bro. but i gotta disagree.
if all that got spoke here was photography it would be drone-land... a one-dimensional cyberverse void of humanity. as it is, i probly spend too much of my time thinking and breathing this thing we do, whether its on this forum or in my daily life. and if all the GG rules were enforced it would be foto-facism. it's the human frailties and human weaknesses that draw me here. if all i wanted to do was speak photo-ese, i'd make all my postings on photo.net or at some similar URL.
as someone said, this is a community. photography, for the most part glamour photography, is the glue that keeps this community stuck together. we're all individuals with other interests that we like sharing with our community neighbors. and sometimes there's gonna be fights... not that you'd ever find me in the midst of one of them. and the fights, IMO, also act as a catalyst for the epoxy that binds this place.
this joint also serves as entertainment. personally, i'm often amused here. and sometimes, i'll confess, i stir the pot for my own amusement. (yes, i'm often that bored.) but what heck? why not stir it here where i'm surrounded by people who, regardless of their agreements and/or disagreements on issues outside of photography or issues that are only indirectly related to photogaphy, have the common bond of photography? in the end, that which joins us (photography) makes it easier for us to find resolutions (or to meet somewhere in between) when it comes to our disparate views, attitudes, and beliefs that have little or nothing to do with photography itself.
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