Re: Debate: Making a pizza

[Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a) I think you're talking about synergy rather than a gestalt. Damned if I
want to get that intimate with some of you guys!

b) Where the hell do you get YOUR pizza - mine has never been quite that
inspirational.

Regards, Andrew


>Excuse the analogy, but I think better in simple terms:
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>	All the Panoramic photographers in the world are like a pizza!
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>A pizza is a gestalt.
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>A true example where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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>Pizza is not just dough, or tomato sauce, garlic, oregano, olive oil, green
>peppers, meat of your choice (if carnivore).
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>Each of the ingredients, by itself is not a pizza.
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>Even mixed together they present a less than appetizing vision.
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>But apply the magical force of heat, be it thermal or the heat of discussion,
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>Some of the 'items' lose their individuality, some Seem to disappear, while
>others puff up with super-heated air and become bigger than life,
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> Unexpectedly the disparate individuals transform into a new entity, a
>harmonious blending of uniquenesses in the form of:
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>Vision, Hope, Wonder.
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>Be it Xpan or Cirkut it is a beauty to behold.
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>Unity within Diversity.
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>We are all photographers.
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>Celebrate the Light in your own way.  Tis the Season.
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>Mitch Warner