New Member, New Gallery

Welcome Jill,
You have some real nice images. I love the Pearl Queen shot. Lots of humour and good, funny slices of life. Reminds me of Erwit.
Cheers!
Sandy

Jill, I love your work and have great admiration for your career. I own a copy of your book “Street Cops”. We’re fortunate to have you here. Best. – Ron

Jill,
Did you once freelance for the Miami Herald about 3- 5 years ago? I think I might have worked with you there.
glad to see you out and about
Joshua Prezant

Jill, welcome to LS and I for one am very pleased to see you here.   Your colleagues love you too!  You will find a mix of people with various interests and backgrounds, which makes for a pretty lively community; but it is particularly heartening to see more established photographers joining up, who by their example can show younger members the many different ways there are to reach their goals.  Your own varied career in itself is ample evidence of the many  possibilities that exist and of the fact that a photographer’s oeuvre comprises many different themes and forms.



LS is really unlike any other cyber community, not only for what it offers in the way of info (where admittedly there are common features with some other sites), but also for its civil tone and general impetus, which is focused on mutual help and cooperative endeavor—a first in the photo world if you ask me.  Course, there are heated discussions from time to time, but generally the threads are remarkable for their consistent supportiveness and loyalty to an overarching idea that commands respect not out of exigence or necessity but for its flexibility, its inclusivity, its liberality.   It is based in generosity and solidarity.  It is new, open-ended, and full of potential.  I have a feeling you will find it to your liking.  Anyway, new enterprises need to have roots in viable traditions, and your work is certainly one place where LS can nourish itself.  Welcome.

Jill! :)))))))))))))...(thrilled, really)...so, i’ll keep it short…I shalln’t (that’s an Andersonism, fore-fingered from Jon) be as long as he (Jon A, again), but I share his sentiments…and an age-tongued, stemmed-licked tall class of the stuff with you! :)...that and a chicken will make a fiddler like me very happy and i imagine you as well! :)))...May I, with respect, offer you something succint: a tribute to your work and to you for joining in our merriment…: "HAIL AND FAIR—-WELL!"  ;))))).... welcome Jill! :))))...cheers, Bob

Thanks, everyone, for your wonderful feedback. We photographers know how it is, there’s never any feedback except for some putz that asks why you did this instead of that. Or you’re having a show/book of something you’ve worked on for 20 years and they ask “so what are you working on now?” “Bend over and I’ll insert it,” is the proper response, rarely spoken but intensely felt. I love hearing from you! And I do love this site. I’ve learned so much already, and had so much fun looking at all your pictures. The more you shoot, the surer you feel, the better you get, unless you’re a trendy idiot.
Bob, how wonderful that you know “the fiddler’s chicken.” And here I thought nobody ever saw the book(s). Jon, be as long as you want, you’ve got a silver tongue, an example of the generosity and solidarity you mentioned. Josh, yes, it’s me, say hi to all my old pals at the Herald. Ron, I’m delighted you have “Street Cops”. I love that book! It nearly killed me, but was worth it.
And Sandy, the Pearl Queen loves you, too. I’ve really enjoyed all your galleries, as well as all the others I’ve looked up. You know it can get pretty isolated out here. But now I feel I’ve struck gold – kindred spirits, open and generous, and if the world were filled with (real) photographers, it would be a funnier, smarter, happier place. Roll one up, pour one out, and think of me.

Hey Jill!  Great to find you here. I met you at Christy Mc Namara’s opening at The Loft at Morrison Hotel Gallery.  Can’t wait to see you again so that we can talk about photography and animals. I LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!

Peace and Happiness

Rick Edwards

Jill,
I found this site doing a search for you. I saw you at a photojournalism convention back in the late 80s and you took the time to sit down and look at my portfolio. I also contacted you again many years ago, but hadn’t gone anywhere with my photography, until about a year ago. “A Time that Was” and “Street Cops” are still favorites. (I still have yet to pick up a copy of “Circus Days.”)

I just want to thank you again for taking the time to sit down with a newbie (back then) and for your inspiration. I hope you someday get the recognition you deserve.

Diana

“We photographers know how it is, there’s never any feedback except for some putz that asks why you did this instead of that.”

Or they say, “That’s a great photo…what kind of camera did you use?” Sometimes homicide should be justified.

Bob, what are you smoking?

Welcome to the fold, Jill.

I’m sorry to say, Jill, that “THE all-time drop-dead New York Book” will be my book which I too will be bringing around to publishers real soon.

But you know what, I’ll be buying yours ‘cause your work is entirely delicious.

Good hunting.

Paulyman.

Eh Jill, I admire your work, what surprise to read you are in lightstalkers. Welcome, bienvenida. Saludos

Welcome Jill. great to see your work and have you here.
Kind Regards, Pete

Hi Jill, your work is marvelous, very human. Welcome !!!
just to inform you that I tried to enter your website and it appears that the correct address is www.jillfreedman.net and not .com.
Best
David

Welcome Jill… Never met you and it might never happen but your work tells me all… good to have you here. Best,

Hi Jill, welcome to Lightstalkers!

Welcome Jill.

Anyone who writes: “We photographers know how it is, there’s never any feedback except for some putz that asks why you did this instead of that. Or you’re having a show/book of something you’ve worked on for 20 years and they ask “so what are you working on now?” “Bend over and I’ll insert it,” is the proper response, rarely spoken but intensely felt.”

....knows exactly how it is and is a friend of mine.

Jill, good to find you, It’s been a while since you lived in Miami Beach. We use to talk when you use to come to the Herald to work.I like I said it’s been a while so you might not remember me. Any how hope you are doing well.
Raul Rubiera