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When photography was first developed it wasn’t considered art because it lacked the emotion and feeling of a painting or a sculpture. Painters derided the new techniques and called it mechanical. A century or so later photography is firmly entrenched in the world of art and it is digital photography that enters the arena and is derided by those film purists as mechanical and lacking the feeling of those glorious grains of silver halide.
Digital photography is slowly becoming more accepted and is demonstrating to the world once again that the method of production is not as important as the finished piece. None of my images were captured with a digital camera. Those strings of ones and zeros are not my art. I load those strings of ones and zeros into programs, themselves little more than strings of ones and zeros, and use those tools as a painter uses his brush to create my images. That is my art.
Each of us sees the world in a unique way and that is a wonderful thing to celebrate. These images bring forth an emotion for me and I hope that you are similarly affected. I’ll not tell you what I feel for I lack that ability with words. I’ll not tell you what you should feel because your own reaction to my vision is no less valid or meaningful than my own.
The raw image file is my paint, my computer is my canvas, and the world is my inspiration.