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03/18/2005 01:27:36 AM · #1 |
Here's an odd DPC challenge: try fasting from your UPDATE button for a full 24 hours. For those who are not familiar with what is meant by a spiritual 'fast', it simply means removing a particular activity from your daily life for the purpose of spiritual introspection and inner growth. The discipline of fasting has been practiced by people around the globe in nearly every world religion for ages and ages.
Of course, during this specific time of the year, millions of Christians around the world are fasting (usually once a week, from a certain kind of food, or a specific meal) in preparation for the feast of Easter. This time of year is known to Christians as the season of 'Lent' (the Latin word for "springtime"), a 40 day season prior to Easter, marking the 40 days Jesus fasted in the wilderness. Lent is a season of spiritual introspection, of turning one's life around to look in a new direction, of seeking spiritual renewal through inner life disciplines and insights gained from such spiritual disciplines as fasting.
Why 'fast' from your UPDATE button? Here are three good reasons, none of them having anything to do with any religion, all of them having everything to do with photography:
1) SELF-AWARENESS: as a newbie, I've become aware of a growing obesssion with the UPDATE button, as though my life depends on knowing my score, on your approval, on higher and higher scores. Yah sure, my mind keeps telling me I'm a dork, but my hand keeps clicking that damned button. Every addict knows that the first step towards inner growth of recovery is the humbling step of self-awareness, of being honest with who we are, of ways our lives have become outofcontrol.
2) COMPASSION: a 24 hour period away from the UPDATE button just might help push a few of us out of a self-centered mode of living, and help us step behind someone else's camera lense. All in all, I've been impressed by the level of communal kindness among DPC folks. Maybe photographers are used to looking outside themselves at the world around them. Still, why not step away from the UPDATE button once a week and practice some 'random act of kindness'.
3) BALANCE: I'm guessing here, but 20/80 comes to mind as a likely ratio for most of us, with 20% of our photography time spent making photos and 80% sitting like geeks behind a computer screen. Maybe, just maybe our lives have gotten a wee bit out of balance. Wierd. I keep waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. Same dream. A nice cop is juggling colorful pieces of thread as he tells me, loud and clear: "Step away from the UPDATE button. Put your hands on your camera gear! Go outside and play!"
Meet you in the next challenge. I won't be touching you know what.
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03/18/2005 01:30:21 AM · #2 |
My Home>My Preferences>and turn off scores :)
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03/18/2005 01:46:38 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
My Home>My Preferences>and turn off scores :) |
Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about that option but now have it off. |
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03/18/2005 01:48:43 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by charliebaker:
Originally posted by faidoi:
My Home>My Preferences>and turn off scores :) |
Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about that option but now have it off. |
I think I did that for about 4 hours and couldn't resist turning it back on. Good luck. |
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03/18/2005 02:00:02 AM · #5 |
| there's an update button? |
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03/18/2005 02:49:48 AM · #6 |
AAAAAAAhhhhhhh, no I cant do it.....the thought of it makes me feel ill!
Talking of dreaming.... I downloaded neat image yesterday and spent the whole of last night dreaming about taking the noise out of my photos. Very sad! |
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03/18/2005 05:32:48 AM · #7 |
Mine is permanently turned off, except for occasions when the number of comments suggests the score might be very interesting :-)
The main reason is that I feel there's not much point in obsessing about scores after the shot is entered - time to focus the thoughts on the next shot.
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03/18/2005 05:37:16 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by e301:
Mine is permanently turned off, except for occasions when the number of comments suggests the score might be very interesting :-) |
i guess yours has been turned on a bit, lately ;-) |
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