Tuesday, March 26, 2013

50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas

WHAT A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT !

HOW COULD THEY SCREW THIS UP ?

IT WOULD NEVER BE MY MISSION TO RAIN ON THE PARADE BUT THIS DESERVED IT AND INCLUDED THE OPINIONS OF EVERY ONE I MET AT THE GALLERY !

THIS A TRAVELING EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'2 125 YEAR HISTORY...THAT NOT TRUE..I SAW NOTHING OLDER THAN 40 YEARS.

WHERE TO START ?

FIRST...THE DAMN THING WAS IN THE DARK...WORST LIGHTING FOR PHOTOS IN HISTORY....IMAGINE THE CAPTIONS WITH ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHERS TALKING ABOUT LIGHT ....REPITITION AND COLOR AND THEN HAVING THESE PHOTOS SO POORLY LIT.

TOO LOW....CAPTIONS SHOULD BE AT EYE LEVEL AND I NEARLY BROKE MY BACK TRYING TO READ THEM...AND MANY OF THE CAPTIONS WHERE DARK OR PARTIALLY LIT.

GALLERY WAS TOO DARK.

A WEEK AGO I WAS AT THE GEORGE FEDERAL BUILING WHICH DISPLAYED 200 PHOTOS FROM THE NEVADA PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB...IN THE LOBBY OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING...BETTER LIGHTING...BETTER PHOTOS AND A BETTER PRESENTATION.....WHAT?  ACTUALLY NOT FAIR TO THE PHOTO CLUB TO COMPARE THEM TO SOMETHING SO AWFUL !

HOW AWFUL TO PREMISE THIS AS AN EVENT AND THEN NOT PRODUCE...IT WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN MUCH TO LIGHT IT UP AND RAISE IT UP......COULD STILL HAPPEN...LETS HOPE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.

RUMOR HAS IT GOING TO NOVEMBER...I RECOMMEND ALMOST EVERYTHING I REVIEW TO THE WORLD....STEVIE WONDER AND RAY CHARLES WOULD HAVE HATED THIS.

HAVING A 40 YEAR COLLECTION OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICS....I HAVE SOME HISTORY AND INTEREST AND DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE MY FAVORITE 50...I DID SEE SOME !

THERE WHERE FOUR OR FIVE VIDEOS WHICH WERE WONDERFUL AND TIMED PERFECTLY.

IN THINKING ABOUT THIS MOST OF THE PHOTOS WERE DULL AND NOT SHARP EVEN IN MULTI REPRODUCTION...THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE MISSION.

WHO LAID THIS OUT AND WHY...MUST HAVE BEEN THEIR FIRST DAY AWAY FROM HOME.

NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE NEGATIVE REACTIONS TO ANYTHING NAT GEO....I DO NOW.

THIS AT THE VENETIAN AND UNLESS THEY FIX IT...I RECOMMEND YOU NOT GO.

I WAS PERSONALLY OFFENED.

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