Go ahead and put his stuff up. If Elvis doesn't want us to know he is an OM
user, OK, but we already know that he is still around. <g>
Gary
Garth Wood wrote:
> Well, I have a problem, and I'd like the List members to weigh in with their
> thoughts.
>
> I've just received a submission set from a gentleman who doesn't want his
> name used, but wants to publish his images under a pseudonym. (I assume that
> this means that he doesn't want any indication of where he's from, either.)
> The submissions are generally of a good quality (though the scans will need a
> lot of tweaking to clean them up), and display a good eye and good judgment,
> at least in my opinion. Unusually, though, he has included a
> readily-identifiable photo of himself, even though he requests pseudonymity
> otherwise.
>
> Personally, my initial reaction was that I wasn't interested in
> pseudonymous/anonymous submissions -- I consider the Gallery one more way of
> emphasizing a sense of community amongst Oly users in general (and List
> members in particular), and I think it's difficult to cater to that community
> sense with a pseudonymous submission set. Of course, the final decision is
> mine to make (it's my time, my software, my server and my bandwidth that gets
> expended to put up anyone's submissions), but to date I've never refused a
> submission or substantially altered one (at least in my opinion). I always
> thought that editing like that, or refusing to publish, was an unwarranted
> expression of my own aesthetic judgment. However, in this case, it's *not*
> my aesthetic judgment which is being brought into play here.
>
> I understand and respect this gent's requirement for privacy in an online
> world where too frequently we can be tracked and profiled without our
> knowledge or consent. Yet I'm still reluctant to use these submissions -- if
> you want privacy, why submit?
>
> Appreciate any discussion or guidance from other List members. This one's a
> bit of a poser for me.
>
> Garth
>
>
> "A bad day doing photography is better
> than a good day doing just about
> anything else."
>
> The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
>
> http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
>
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