This is precisely the point.
I don't see the need to get upset at all. Over what? Because someone likes the look of your work and would like to achieve something similar but using different methods? Seriously?
I really don't understand all this obsession with "handcrafted physical objects" - to me, photography is all about the image, the one both created and drawn by light. Everything else is just presentation. It is that slice of time isolated from the continuum that will never repeat itself again in a single image that draws my attention, not the material it is pasted on. The material is just a print.
But if making things with your hands is what moves you, that's perfectly fine too, as long as you don't turn it into a fetish or a cult and start harassing others for their "deviation".
Marko
P.S. Walter, just to make it clear after re-reading it - the "you" is a figurative, not you personally...
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