Photography -- RE: Photograph? Watercolor?

I love the lofty idealism.

Not quite the perspective of one who must get up early every morning and make beautiful pictures of incredibly well designed junk so that clients can brainwash the masses into buying more of the things that nobody really needs.

Or drives us out to capture the “TRUTH” in some remote corner of Asia where the only respite is drinking copious amounts of brew and perhaps inhaling illegal vapors with other hunters of the same elusive prey

But perhaps it’s the real human, earthy joy of the cheque (Check?) in the post that keeps us striving for better pictures.

Now where did I leave my iPod… oh yes… it’s there, next to the 300mm f2.8 lens (I’m certain there was some image that had to be taken with that lens…. Must try and remember what I bought it for… Nice glass tho. )

From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Earnest
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:46 AM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: Photograph? Watercolor?

Howard writes:

: But maybe I just feel that Photography is in danger of forgetting and
: losing its roots which were based in some effort to capture a real
: moment, in favour of generative and non-real image making. That
: Photography is about "as it is" and not fantasy.

I’ll bet there was a point in time when someone could be heard saying:

“But maybe I just feel that Painting is in danger of forgetting and
losing its roots which were based in some effort to capture a real
moment, in favour of generative and non-real image making. That
Painting is about "as it is" and not fantasy.”

Thank god photography came along and relieved painting of that duty.
Hasn’t photography borne that burden long enough?

If you love photography, set it free.
If it comes back...

R

P.S. If it doesn’t return you can always hunt it down and kill it.