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July 2022

06 Jul

Posted at 08:29h in Blog, Dick's Rant by [social_share]

Many people think that they are great artists - some are correct in this, and some take a lifetime to find out they were wrong. That's the brushes, canvas, marble chisels, and plasticine side of the thing - leaving aside the artists that collect discarded bricks or stand hooting in a city street. You can make up your own mind about them. However, I suspect that in the photography game there are a lot more people who are better at it than they realise. The simple fact that they have picked up a camera or poked a computer keyboard tells us that there is something in there. Some people drive at their art - some art drives people. And we have all seen what drivers are like in wet weather...

04 Jul

Posted at 09:34h in Blog, Dick's Rant by [social_share]

Of course you can - and tens of thousands of thoughts have gone through various government's bureaux over the last centuries  to be assigned to owners  - who have paid for the privilege. After that, a fair number of them have vanished into obscurity - having been published as possible but ending as improbable. The ones that have made it into commercial life have not had it easy, either. No end of truly good thoughts make truly bad products. Along the way, some of them have stripped fortunes from the high and low alike.  Well, how about scenes? Can you patent a photograph of a scene - and prevent anyone else from ever making that same image? A little harder to do - as the photo world operates upon the nursery-rhyme idea that a cat may look at a king. The cat can't sell someone else's view of royalty to the illustrated papers as it may be covered by copyright, but if Tiddles can formulate his own view, he's entitled to hold it.  It has been tried - and in some venal jurisdictions...

01 Jul

Posted at 09:47h in Blog, Dick's Rant by [social_share]

I'm hunting wabbits. As a person who has fwequently hunted wabbits I am well aware that a .470 Nitro Express may be a bad choice - the effect on me would be only a little way short of that on the wabbit. Overkill can go both ways. Those days are finished, of course, and I now get my wabbits delivered by Uber. I think the last pair have been busy as the house is filling up with tails and ears...