Some people won't go out to take a picture unless Luminous Landscape says
the auguries are propitious. That said, I won't pay them even a buck a
month, even though I've found some of their content useful more than a few
times in my shooting life (but less than many).
But then every time I've been to LL, I've had a feeling like I'd just
walked through the Gates of Faerie into a land where a photo isn't a photo
unless it was captured by a Hasselblad or 8x10 (film) or Phase One
(digital) and printed at no less size than 40x60. I know, that's unfair,
but it's a sense of things as much as their reality.
Let me know if the drop the wall or kick off.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, this is supposed to be the last day of accessibility to
> Luminous-Landscape before they implement the pay wall. Granted, it's
> only a buck a month, but this will be a great study in how to kill a
> website.
>
> Back when we launched zone-10, that was going to be one of the things
> we implemented was a pay wall for additional features and content.
> While we never developed out the site and services offered to warrant
> it, the one thing I learned through the research was that it was a bad
> idea. It is self-filtering and self-limiting. In other words, the only
> people who will willingly pay are those who are essentially already in
> the club.
>
> Three questions:
>
> 1. How long will it take until they tear down the pay wall?
> 2. How long until the website shuts down entirely?
> 3. Does anybody really care because the site isn't relevant anyway?
>
> AG Schnozz
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