Digital BW, The Print

I've seen many a photo that was almost surely a random snapshot that got
great reviews from art critics and judges. Sometimes you CAN just take a
random shot and by hook or crook, it looks great. 

I saw a Jackson Pollack biography a few years ago that showed him
pouring housepaint from cans onto a huge canvas from a balcony. I doubt
he was  thinking of what the painting was going to look like when he
began. When he saw a composition he liked, he stopped pouring paint.
Nothing more difficult than that.

Jerry

Moreno Polloni wrote:
> 
> > Mmm. In a recent photo competition a judge eulogised over the skill and
> > imagination that had obviously gone into taking a winning picture. I
> > laughed, as did the person who took it. Purely a random snap, while trying
> > out a new camera. He didn't think of any of the things that the judge said
> > were marvellously perceptive and original.
> 
> But isn't that typical of photo competition judges?
> 
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