At 08:59 PM 2/22/2003 -0600, you wrote: >> Can we please take this private, it has nothing to do with the intent of >> this list. >> >> Take care, >> Gregory david Stempel >> FIREFRAMEi m a g i n g > >Certainly! *poof* gone! Now, on to more important drivel. How many of >you cockamamie photographers consider yourself "artists"? > >Cheers! >Colette <-----artist-----< > > Colette, Interesting you should ask... This was bantered about just last week on another list. Seems some photographers are very skittish about being lumped in with a bunch of neurotic, effete, egocentric, probably smelly bohemians - or so they like to believe. I think like it or not, as picture-makers, being an artist is one facet of our identity. Now, please, please don't ask if photography is art :-) AZ card-carrying artist Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book. http://www.panoramacamera.us