Interesting. Do you ever worry that maybe people just buy the photograph for the frame then? --- "Rev. Sidney Flack" <sgflack@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alberto Tirado wrote: > > I am considering giving up my own mating and > framing..... > > Alberto, > > I consider matting and framing to be the final > stages of the over all > process toward producing a fine print. I wouldn't > even consider > offering one of my photographs for sale without it > being mounted and > matted. I've considered not framing them. But I'd > hate to think of the > ghastly things people might use. Even after money > has been exchanged > and the photograph walks away in someone else's > hand, it's still my > photograph and I care how it is finally presented. > Putting it in the > kind of frame I prefer and selling it that way makes > it just a little > less likely it be put in some other type of frame > latter. I won't even > think about what other colors of mat people might > consider. > > To put it succinctly, I consider matting and framing > to be part of the > image, not an add on. I wouldn't think of giving it > up. > > Peace! > Sidney > ===== "The optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true" - J Robert Oppenheimer http://www.geocities.com/tr_cunningham __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
