There was a very appropriate comment made
concerning my image in this weeks gallery stating that if I wanted an image
that looked like a watercolor, I should just paint the image in
watercolor (the comment is paraphrased - I didn't save it).
Like photographers of the past
(realizing they didn't have the tools available to them that we have
now) I use the tools accessible to create the image I want. I
don't see anything wrong with that. (I have shown both watercolors and
oil paintings in shows, so I do know how to use those tools.)
Having said that - there are photographers who
say the same as the person who made the paint vs. photograph
comment. Certain photographers feel the painterly photograph is not
a *real* photograph. Likewise, painters say the image is not a *real*
painting, so both are irritated with me. (In order to perturb so many, I must be doing something right
{:->)
I will be having a solo show that will include
several of my questionable images in May, and have been invited to show
several of the "experimental images" in another gallery show. I
guess I'd better wear my thick skin to both shows.
Marilyn
