Photography -- Re: Photograph? Watercolor?

Marilyn,

There are always people who criticize cutting edge work demonstrating new ideas, concepts or techniques. It reflects more about the person who is making the criticism than about the work. It is just par for the course when one is trying out new stuff.

Roy

In a message dated 4/6/2008 8:23:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, marilyn160@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

There was a very appropriate comment made concerning my image in this weeks gallery stating that if I wanted an image that looked like a watercolor, I should just paint the image in watercolor (the comment is paraphrased - I didn't save it).

Like photographers of the past (realizing they didn't have the tools available to them that we have now) I use the tools accessible to create the image I want. I don't see anything wrong with that. (I have shown both watercolors and oil paintings in shows, so I do know how to use those tools.)

Having said that - there are photographers who say the same as the person who made the paint vs. photograph comment. Certain photographers feel the painterly photograph is not a *real* photograph. Likewise, painters say the image is not a *real* painting, so both are irritated with me. (In order to perturb so many, I must be doing something right {:->)

I will be having a solo show that will include several of my questionable images in May, and have been invited to show several of the "experimental images" in another gallery show. I guess I'd better wear my thick skin to both shows.

Marilyn