To "AnyWho": To someone who is a "Photographer" and even thinks of asking "Is Photography and Art?" have never even touched a camera. I mean really. Any scene, any still-life, any person, anything I point my camera at can be shot a any number of ways. AND as long as you intended to get the results you got, you did it well. Even a street scene where i have no control what so ever, I can still control how the camera records the scene, and how it is printed. I could even take elements of numerous images and combine them into one. Every image I snap the shutter on is something I have at least a little thought out. Personally the only reason a photo major writing a paper for his English class would choose the topic, "Is Photography and Art?" Is because they wanted an easy topic to answer. How can anyone be a photo major even think to ask that seriously unless they have no respect at all for their own work. A parent who just wants a snapshot of their child playing in the yard sprinklers, just wants to capture that moment and hold on to it forever... But with just a few seconds of thinking anyone of us here could easily come up with 3, 4, 8 or even more great shots of the very same moment. Brian Blankenship B & N Graphics http://www.bngraphics.com "Under God" And "In God We Trust" "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." ~ Robin Williams "Freedom was attacked today by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." ~ George W. Bush 9-11-2001 "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Not all who wander are lost..." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien "Simplifying a Composition - One time when Ansel was shooting in the Sierras with some friends, he came away from his camera and walked into the scene. He grabbed a hold of a tree limb, ripped it off the tree, and tossed it aside. When his more environmentally concerned friends made an uproar, he simple stated that it did not belong in the picture." ~ Ansel Adams Autobiography
