Digital BW, The Print

> YAY MARTIN   i am not a photographer, as i have told you in off
> group (but a visual artist using these tools), but i truly think
> one needs to follow NOT THE RULES
> OF THE TOOLS, but what you are trying to SEE and get SEEN (may i
> say what you FEEL and want to share?)  why else DO it?    no
> matter how "perfect" you get
> (perfection being impossible) if it says nothing, it truly SAYS NOTHING!
>
> so use all the tools, whatever way you use them, and be the
> artist rather than the shooter/technician      the art world has
> not so easily accepted photography as an art
> form   i do    but if you argue forever over the small things,
> how do you ever have time or energy for the looking and seeing?
> which precede the taking of that shot that
> stops your heart and that of others    i have seen some shots i
> found on this discussion (links) which stopped my heart and made
> me want to LIVE THERE for some
> time AND return to there   now THERE, my friends, is ART!    jno

I don't disagree at all.  The issue is, is it photography, or graphics art,
and where to you draw the line?

Austin