Subject: Fwd:  Re: [burningcorn] One thing that wasn't too cool at B.C.

--- In burningcorn@y..., "Phil" <chrome@l...> wrote:
> > Have a look at the photos on the web page.  Do you recognize 
anyone?  I
took
> > care to make them "bad" enough that you'd be unable to to 
recognize
people
> > in them.
>
> "Took care" ? Whatever do you mean, Phil ? I saw nothing more 
there, than
> the usual amount of blurring that will occur, when people are moving
> quickly, and dark conditions force a long exposure. Unless you wish 
to
> take credit for the sun setting, I'm not sure what kind of "care" 
we're
> supposed to see in your work, here. Nice work, I wouldn't mind 
putting
> some of that on my walls, but obscured ? Hardly.

I stood well back, didn't zoom in, didn't use a flash.

>
> And what of it ? I could recognize myself. And, even so, this is 
really
> not on-point. Somebody who is feeling a little shy about doing 
something,
> obviously can't see your photos before they are taken. What would 
incline
> them to do something, or not do something, is what they knew back 
then,
> not what they know now. So, you have not answered Paul's point 
about the
> chilling effect of that camera, at all.

I was "chilled" myself to be less drunk than I was the previous year, 
but
this was just vibe.  There must have been 6 people with cameras 
running
about the fire, and we had a nice PA system set up.  If it was 
causing a
problem, someone should have announced it on the speakers.

> I'm going to try, really hard, not to let what you did here, spoil 
the
> memory of what I generally found to be a really good time. But, 
Phil, you
> were out of line, so drop the defensiveness and apologize.

DO NOT order me around!  I am not your bitch.  However, I do 
apologize.  I
have deleted the photo you are so upset about.


Phil
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