get closer....like...waay closer

some people are name droppers....you're a place dropper.   

For example,
https://www.photoshop.com/?user=KirkT&galleryid=a9807a02488742e993b3d7baf26ab652&wf=share

If you haven't tried it, photoshop.com has a really nice interface with some editing tools too.  Not nearly as mainstream as Flickr but nice nevertheless.  I use with with my phone, which automagically uploads it to the site (2GB free, pay after that).  Plus, it links in with Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa so you can move files to and fro.

Now, keep in mind this is for photo storage, light manipulation and sharing among sites but doesn't have the fav or group type stuff that Flickr has (which I use less and less anymore).

However, I can create a group in photoshop.com and share it as an embedded or linked slideshow to present to people.

It used to be you'd type photoshotp.com and it would take you right there, but now you have to click on apps to find it.

I like it (although share was always there).  It's about time they did some improvements. 

compulsive shooting pretty much makes up my entire Flickr stream.

Mike, I think the Werra 3 was what I sold you was it not?  I really miss that camera.  It was a blast to use and those lenses are fantastic.

Excellent points, Jorn.  And, like I said, my thoughts needs more work.  One must shore up their reflective equilibrium.  But your last paragraph sums it up.  I think the concept of war photography threw off our meeting of the mind, and if I discard that we may be on the same wavelength.   I agree that these photos can serve a point, but...in the same vein I fault the photographer for taking the easy way out. 

Selgado is an excellent example.  There is no cheap photo there.  He is a perfect example of what I consider to the be the better of documentary photography.  He goes above and beyond.  As does most of VII and Magnum (with possible exceptions) and others. 

Well, I need to think deeper with this thought:  What I meant about "easy" is how it is received by the viewer.  It's easy to look at these photos and know what you are "supposed" to feel.  You can look at it, move on to something else.  For me, there is so much of this stuff out there and, as a consumer of photographic images, I feel like I'm becoming bored at the same type of images with the same reactions. Granted, most people don't see these images everyday and are truly surprised.

I'm sure, as with much of the is photography (i.e., war, ruin, homeless) it's the consumer that is driving the "art".  War photographers have a deadline and a story to tell.  I'm sure they don't have the time to be uber-creative with what they present and, as much, I'm sure that they have photo editors that dictate what they can produce.

I'm sure this mostly reflects my tastes and overall boredom, but for photographers of his obvious caliber, you just come to expect something a little more; a little different.  Photos of homeless people and ruined buildings I expect to see from beginners of street photography and young people but, to me, just seems so trite from a full blown professional photographer.

Sorry, I'm sure this comes off as snobby and snippy and I apologize as it's the first thing I've put down this morning and I haven't the time to smooth out the edges.   

They call it ruin porn now - images of fallen Detroit.  These images don't do much for me anymore since I  see it constantly.  It's just to easy of a target; like homeless people and war images.

I lived in Detroit for quite a few years (30min outside now).  My backyard overlooked Gross Point - probably one of the richest areas in the state.  It was a disgusting contrast between rich and poor.  Police were on a nonstop patrol of the borderline pulling anybody over who wasn't white.  The locals put blockades on most of the streets to block traffic.

But it was weird too on my side of the street.  We were slated to get a big chunk of money for home repair and street repair and the local folks went apeshit on the people giving the news.  They called it gentrification and insisted that this was to push them out when all they wanted to do was give the homeowners a bit of help getting their neighborhood looking good again.

Somewhere, and I'll have to find the link, there is a great series of photographs by a guy who shot life in these ruins.  What I mean to say is that he shot not only abandoned lots and homes but shot the plants that have over grown the area and brought back some "life" to the local.  To me that was beautiful and showed, not only the ruin but, a positive light on the total effect. 

I worry about scratching with a tray, but more importantly, in my house there is no such thing as solitude.  Somebody definitely would bust in during the processing 

Hmmm, never would have guessed that.   Time to experiment...