Sigh. This is hard.(posted 8637 days ago)One of the reasons I have mostly stuck to anonymous figures in my posts here is that those of my photos that might otherwise qualify were mostly taken of family and friends in unguarded moments. They include simple portraits like this one, as well as more psychological images which bring out single aspects of their character, and not always the nice ones.
Showing these people to a worldwide audience for comment involves redifining my relationship with them, and the way I think of myself as a photographer. Those I have asked have had no objection to their pictures appearing here, because I emphasised that the point of our discussions is a mutual bootstrapping to higher quality photos.
"Nice Tits" wasn't what I had in mind.
I'm not a prude, I am not offended, and I saw the smiley; but I'm just not interested in this level of discourse, even if it's supposed to be a joke. Make fun of *me* all you like, I am here to fight back.
Shawn: if you don't want an empty thread cluttering up your forum, I have no objection to deletion.