I fear I lost my creativity!! (update #33, I'm very sad)

[Kirsten]

So how do we go about getting on there and giving him what for???

Thanks, but believe me, that won't help either.

BTW, Johanna is absolutely right with everything she said. I'm not able to fight my wars alone, I'm not able to fight at all. This has always been my problem, I've always been the one that's been mobbed. In Kindergarten, at school, in my jobs... always. People like that guy have the ability to find those they can hurt most - and then they would do it. Well, yes, maybe there's something like karma and they'll get a payback in some way, sooner or later. But it's probably my karma to take such crap.

But it's also true that I should try to change. Just don't know how.

Kirsten

[Catty1]

Kirsten, if you have been like this all your life, it will take some professional assistance to change.

If counselling costs money, you can check with rehab centres for groups that deal with adults who came from dysfunctional homes.

Have a look here and see if it fits, ok?

http://www.nacoa.de/

HUGS!

(PS - if your photo board does have an Ignore feature, use it! )

[RICHARD]

Here's the last answer....

When he ridicules someone or you for not understanding his "work", politely post this,

Gosh, your work is sooooo good!
Why are you posting on an "amateur" site?
I am printing out some of your work because I need wallpaper in my home.


About the high tech camera...

You are giving hope to the people who cannot afford or understand how to use technology in photography. There is room for dinosaurs in the world!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Well, we all think you are great and you should too!!!

[DJFyrewolf36]

Here's the last answer....

When he ridicules someone or you for not understanding his "work", politely post this,

Gosh, your work is sooooo good!
Why are you posting on an "amateur" site?
I am printing out some of your work because I need wallpaper in my home.


About the high tech camera...

You are giving hope to the people who cannot afford or understand how to use technology in photography. There is room for dinosaurs in the world!

LOL this approach works too

[Kirsten]

You know what? I think I'll soon be going back there, and yes, the board HAS an ignore fuction which I will use for that guy. But I won't do anymore landscapes in the near future. They are really ruined for me.

I thank you all for your support here. I know it took me a while, but I'm slowly getting more angry about the whole thing now, instead of feeling bad. Guess that's a healthier reaction to it!

Kirsten

[Barbara]

Makes me happy to hear you're angry. This guy has problems- and of course a little instinct lets him pick on somebody who responds.
Kirsten what he says has nothing to do with you or your photography and I hope to see more of your clear and magic landscapes in the future.

[jennielynn1970]

Now that guy made a final post to my thread and said he's happy that with his question he made me realize that my photos are not for the public!!!

Taking photographs is almost an addiction to me, but now I don't think I can ever do it again with joy. That guy really doesn't know what he did to me, working on these pictures was supposed to be the way back to my inner self after the burn out. Now I'm feeling totally lost, almost amputated. I think I'm going to delete my fotocommunity account the next days...

Kirsten

Kirsten, I don't know who the jerk is who is saying these things, but believe me, as one of the members of the "public", I get tremendous joy viewing your photos!! I even passed on the link to my mother who lived in Germany for a while, and to have her send to our one relative who lives in Germany now and also take wonderful photos and is an artist like you are.

You have a wonderful gift. If this guy is that unhappy with himself and his life, then he needs to just go away and be alone. Let him be an ogre all by himself. Do not play into his games. He wants you to feel badly, and if you delete your account, he has won his game. That's all this is to him, a game. Do not give in to him.

You use poetry a lot in your posts on the photo community, so here is one for you now:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

by Dylan Thomas

It may be about death, but you are experience what you feel is the death of your creativity and I just think you need to fight that, and fight against letting that man win.... Rage against it, Kirsten!

[phesina]

Dear Kirsten, so Mr. Arschloch/Scheisskopf has struck again. I was going to ask what kinds of photographs this guy thinks ARE good and does he have any talent or artistic or commercial renown as a photographer himself. But after your recent messages, I realized that he is NOTHING BUT a vulture and a troll. It doesn't even sound as though he has any interest, let alone ability, in doing photography well himself. His one talent (if that is the word I want) is that he is able to pinpoint someone's vulnerabilities and attack that person viciously right there.

We all tell you what a gifted photographer you are, and any of us on PT may or may not know much about photography. (We know what we like, though!) You say people in the photo forum compliment your pictures or give you constructive criticism, so you are also being told by people who DO know and care a lot about photography that they regard you as one of them and your efforts are appreciated and encouraged.

Put the "ignore" function on for that stupid billy goat, keep on getting angry at him (rage, rage!), and go back to making your beautiful photographs. And I hope you will feel like doing landscapes again, because the ones you've shared with us are breathtaking.

Hugs,
Pat