Perspicacious, eh? Sweaty? grin. No one's mentioned photography's magic dirty little secret: What you choose to show is vital. What percentage of your shots would you show on PUG, for example?
For me, right now, selecting shots to scan/keep is the real magic. I mean, you should see some of the rejects.....
mike wilson wrote:
Hi Frank,
You wrote:
First, I think one should remember that one doesn't simply "become" an artist. It's a journey; an ongoing process. Especially with photography, where anyone can pick up a point and shoot and snap a pic, it's possible that "art" can be (even unwittingly) produced with no thought whatsoever. The thing about the monkeys at the typewriters eventually doing Shakespeare's plays applies much more so to photography. I daresay that a chimp with an automatic camera may eventually take a meaningful photograph, even without knowing what they're doing. Does that make the photograph in question any less "art" than any other photograph? I don't think so.
So, you like fishing then? Because that's a bigger jar of worms you've opened there than even "film vs digital" as Bob W. has so well illustrated. I am really looking forward to some of the responses from the more perspicacious members of this list.
mike
p.s. this email is a work of art.
