Are flower photos really that old and tired?

[F8&Bthere]

I used to put my gear list in my sig but not for reasons of "Look what I got!" It was simply because I was always having to post replies as to what kind of gear I made a shot with. I eventually stopped because even though I listed my stuff, people would still ask

Yeah, especially if you've spent any time in computer related troubleshooting forums- it's almost basic etiquette. Posters get kinda irritated when a question is asked without any mention of OS, hardware, etc. Nowadays with digital photography, people will often look for the metadata in posted photos, particularly if we are asking for troubleshooting advice or a critique. And having a little program like PhotoMe is pretty cool- let's you snoop around without having to ask questions- unless of course they've stripped out the data in post processing.

All I meant by the equipment list in sig chuckle is that we sometimes get more caught up in the gear than in the photos themselves. And I have to say to Casil that I'm thinking that part of it is definitely more of a "guy thing."

[Michaelaw]

Off topic but speaking of a guy thing...I think it's funny when guys carrying cameras do the urinal glance thing at your camera to see what you've got as they pass by on the street. Just a quick look.....

[Marko]

I've been looking at pix for well over 20 years. Yikes.

My take on this is that just about everything has already been done...so should we stop taking photos? This type of thinking is ridiculous to me.

A great shot is a great shot. No matter the subject, no matter how many shots of similar subjects i see, a great shot is a great shot. Looking at them makes me happy. Period.

[AcadieLibre]

I always say, shoot what you enjoy, not what others want.

[F8&Bthere]

Off topic but speaking of a guy thing...I think it's funny when guys carrying cameras do the urinal glance thing at your camera to see what you've got as they pass by on the street. Just a quick look.....

LOL, and I'm as bad as anyone... for example, aesthetically I don't like the way small lenses look on most DSLR bodies (ever seen a Pentax K10/20D with grip and one of their "pancake" lenses? Reminds me of the George Castanza/cold swim/shrinkage episode of Seinfeld). And I even have this thing about non internal zoom lenses looking cheap when extended (even though most of mine are this way). Silly things. Needless to say I felt pretty manly recently at a local Rodeo with my newly acquired used 300mm/4... and I got some nice shots there, but it turned out for a big part of the show that took part closer to my section I was actually needing a smaller lens (and didn't bring one)!!

[casil403]

It really is interesting...I have to wonder...so many famous painters have painted the same images of the Rockies over and over again (how may times have we seen Mount Rundle by Vermillion Lakes or one of the Great Lakes in Northern Ontario) and many of the same images..I wonder if anyone ever said to them it was "just another Rocky Mountain" or it's "too cliche"?
Personally, and IMO I find those sort of comments a wee bit snooty froo-froo!

[Greg_Nuspel]

It's only the same old XXXXX if you try to copy exactly what was done before instead of trying to be creative.