Thread by @joelsax47

Sometimes the goofiest pictures make for the best ones in my eyes.

I have this thing against making photos that seem to fit a template. Cat portraits and portraits in general often have this failing. I must confess...

...that maybe up to half the photos I take of my cats fit the standard portrait template for animals where the subject's complete face is looking straight at you from a very close distance. Some days in some cat groups...

...it can look like a high school yearbook taken by a single professional photographer. I know my stuff is often sloppy and I like it that way. My cats are distinctive, worth breaking some rules for. John Ruskin would have...

...condemned this uniformity of style as imperfect, though he might also have called my latest photo of Boadicea a bright flashlight shined in the eyes of my #Flickr public. He was like that, loving Turner and
hating Whistler.

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Joel Sax shared a #photo with you from the #Flickr app! Check it out:
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Nine tenths of photography is the selection. If a photographer doesn't have bad photos, they aren't trying very hard. If they don't use those "bad" photos, they aren't artists.

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