> -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Bob Talbot (whomever he may be) > >Greg Fraser - Plant > Greg, the self-styled "Assistant Lord of Darkness", presents us yet > again with a dilemma. Is this the antithesis of photographic > technique, a parody of all the paradigmatic conventions of classical > photographic technique or is it art? > > Even the swirl of the left-hand leaf-edge forms a question mark. > Greg's trademark "square but not quite square" format image challenges > the senses of one accustomed to order. The picture contains leaves, > but it's not about foliage. Patterns are everywhere, they are > integral to the very substance of nature, but the patterns in this > image are not without discord. Greg allows extraneous detritus to > remain at the heart of the image, To the untrained eye this appears > to be simply out of focus. But knowing Greg's corpus it clearly would > not have escaped his notice. It's a defiant statement against > pictorialist obsessionism. It's a masterpiece. Yeah. You got it. Greg Fraser Past Master of Funk http://home.golden.net/~fraserg
