Reply To: Fauxtogs who should end up on the main page…

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People having the nerve to say that “anyone can be qualified” is ridiculous.

Nicole Mennell said: “I have achieved my goals, worked as hard as the ‘qualified’ am a full manual mode photographer an achieved amazing pictures”

I like some of her shots, and she has some near misses.  If the horse and human photo had a bit more depth of field, it would be really good.  She strikes me more as “emerging” than as “faux”.   If she is doing “all manual, all the time” she is working too hard at the wrong things, but she seems to be trying hard.  “amazing pictures” is a bit of a stretch but advertizing copy is full of stretched truth.

The state of punctuation and grammar is bad, and declining.   People’s lack of interest is probably due partly to the educational system and partly to technology.  Educators don’t emphasize skills as much as they could and technology has its own demands.  Although, I wonder if our view of our parent’s generation, or their parent’s generation is skewed.  It could be that only those who wrote with good grammar and punctuation were held up and the rest were hidden away.