Debating Modern Photography

[John NYC]

Just to prove it, here is a recent 8x10 image of mine, which is totally influenced by Adams, etc. even though my subject matter is different...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/...a2a82ff8_o.jpg

[Mark Woods]

Hello John, it's that written communications thingie again. ;-) Nicely done image. It's clear that you're building on the previous artists, as do many of us. To totally ignore the masters who walked before is to ignore the legacy -- even with new technology. The ubiquitous images floating around the net and us is due to the easy access of digital acquisition that democratizes the capture and contributes greatly to the noise factor of people claiming to be photographers who are ignorant of it's history. Maybe history doesn't matter. But I'm of the opinion it does. Photography is an unbelievably difficult art form, partly because of the ease of acquisition and the lack of vision of many practitioners leads them to shoot quantity over quality.

Have a good day and keep making wonderful images.