"Collections that someone has worked hard in attaining and sometimes a great cost to them is kinda hard to just give it a way for free" laserloyd
You’ve hit the nail squarely on the head here LASER!
I sometimes find it hard to express exactly what I mean when writing, but you, in your statement, have indirectly asked the question I really want to ask
“its kind a hard to just give it a way for free”
This is the heart of it. They are not asked to GIVE anything away. They are going to keep the photo forever. What’s being asked is that they publish it, but therein lies the real problem: they somehow fall into the group of hoarders and collectors rather than of historian, and people like myself confuse these two groups all too often.
This is probably why myself and others cannot understand their sentiment: because we attribute the honor of the historian to the real driving emotion of the collector: the need to have something others do not
I guess knowing and pontificating upon subjects, that seem unreachable to historians and the like could be a real emotion shared between the historian and the collector. Having found something of great import to others and being able to taunt them with it, I assume has its own reward, but this starts to define the differences between the two groups. I guess it is only natural that an OPENSOURCE collection, reachable by all would be viewed by a collector as a defeat brought about by technology, rather than an achievement that would benefit us all. It would kind of castrate these kinds of folks.
As an example, if you look back at the posts by old (Hal Oele) you’ll find a long string of entries each posting tiny pieces of great photos that intentionally do not reveal anything but claim “I have what you want, but will not let you see it, here is just enough of the photo to prove it”
like this one
That’s not something to defend in my opinion but rather to avoid. My original statement still stands regarding "the photo posted by portion is a composite!”
I do not believe this person is being malicious, I think they are just having fun and the photo is known not to be authentic by that person.
I accept the post in jest and do not have a problem with it, I only point out my view point so as not to detract others on this thread that may put credence in it, who not understanding it was a joke, may think that that image really revealed anything useful at all.