Recent content by Michael G

There you go. I had nothing to do with them and it has been clear my by home forum that I am no longer wanted there. I hope you make good use of them.

The conversation about theft of intellectual property still needs to be had, but now is not the time and place. I did tell him that I would MUCH rather send him mounted prints of my work than have him print them off line, but that seems to have gone unnoticed.

I already took care of that.

Both you know and I know that neither of us has made much of anything from iconography. Neither of us has gotten rich from it, nor are either of us paid what an artist who has the time in trade is worth. And many here will attest to the fact that I have given away many, many icons to those who...

The ends never justifies the means.

You seem to be doing a good job with the little one. She looks adorable in the photos you shoot of her.

Neon, you have not spent the past 15 years and a lot of money studying iconography the way I have. Nor have you spent the past 3 years teaching your student everything that you know about iconography. Nor have you studied countless professionally made prints of icons that are 10 years old only...

Most iconographers that I know do not want people making low grade images of the icons they put on line. My Nikon takes photographs that are 4 meg and yet the photos of icons that I put on line are 400k. A 400k photo of an icon is at internet resolution and not intended to be printed out and...

There are much better ways to go about it, Joseph. Any number of people on here will tell you that I have sent mounted prints to people free of charge who I know are unable to afford them. However, you can never justify theft by the end results. If you want a good example of how going without...

My tone has been influenced by dealing with many people like yourself who think it is fine to just take from iconographers for "the greater good of their icon corner." If you have 4 small icons then consider that a gift from God and offer all of your heart and soul into prayer before those...

So what you are really telling us is you can not afford the $25.00 it would cost you for (2) 5x7 icons, one each of St. John of San Francisco and of St. Joseph the Betrothed? That is what those 2 plus shipping would cost you? I know this, this is why every icon I put on line is watermarked and...

The difference is 1. when you have given advice it is always because I have asked it. For that matter, there have been times when I have had to pull your advice from you because you did not want to offend me. And 2. you actually know what you are talking about in this matter. The person who...

Printing images and putting them in frames is like putting spam ham on your dinner plate and serving it to a king. Seriously. This is the best you can do for Christ? First, you are stealing those images from the iconographer who painted them, or if they are ancient, from the church who owns...

It was straight out telling me what to do, when all I asked for was prayers that God had mercy on me. I have learned my lesson: I won't share sensitive information with anyone, no matter how friendly they act toward me on line.

Did you see my comment about getting to see how a Mamiya works the other day? It is a huge, but sweet camera.