John Mason <profmason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote/replied to: >>Try painting a closeup of a Heron Family :-) > >John is surprised: > >He didn't know that John James Audubon was a >photographer. Well you made me look up some of his works. I think he used much imagination in his painting. And, I didn't see any heron chicks either. I imagine he did have a good pair of binoculars, and in his time there were more birds and more places to watch them as well. I'm not arguing that nature photography is better than works of art such as John James'. I'm saying that photography has allowed us to see such scenes as Herons feeding their young. Not imagined, nor painted from memory of binocular visons, but candidly shot as they go about their bringing up of their family. So you don't think nature photography has reaped great rewards in the arts? I happen to think it has. I think I get better colour in my Mallards too :-) Here's a link to his work if anyone's interested: http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/BOA_index.html -- Jim Davis Nature Photography http://jimdavis.oberro.com Replies in plain text only please!
