01-02-06, 13:27
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada & Ocala National Forest, Florida, USA
Age: 85
Posts: 1,685
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Originally Posted by Terry O'Nolley
Photos cannot have inherent, quantifiable meaning.
There may have been meaning in the heart/mind of the photographer at the time s/he took the photo, but the result - the photograph - carries with it no absolute meaning.
For themes or symbols which, due to statistical happenstance, are easily recognizable by a large portion of the viwers, a tacit agreement on the photos "meaning" might be assumed but that does not impart actual meaning to the photograph.
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OK, if you say so. 
Meanwhile my photos have meaning, good or bad, to me and to the people seeing them.
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