I’ve said before that there’s only so far I get into ‘art,’ both in my own work and with appreciating the work of others. Aesthetically, I’m all for it, and am far more entranced by anyone that can handle realism than I am over particular styles and genres, and in line with that, I’m not terribly captivated by impressionism, expressionism, post-modernism, or indeed
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But then, ‘snot art
Yeah, another from this vantage, but hey – we had the view right out the back decks, so we used it, okay? What would you do go down among the trees where you couldn’t see squat? Gimme a break…
We didn’t know the kayakers, either – they were from one of the neighboring houses on the sound, the dock with the
But still, ‘snot art
We still had a few good days out at the beach, and autofocus stayed locked on tight for this one. It will be a large print soon…
Tell me what you think
Among the other things that I’ve been up to, when I’m not posting as regularly as I should be, has been studying art in an effort to improve my photography. It’s led to some interesting speculation about how we interpret some particular pieces, and made me want to throw it out there to my myriad (3) readers to see if you had similar reactions. So here are a couple of images for
What can you add?
The Richard Dawkins Foundation site pointed me to an article from The Raw Story concerning the rapid decay of the Galápagos due to eco-tourism, which I thought was worth a post, especially since it ties in with another that I’ve been working on that will be along soon.
Permit me to elaborate for a moment on what may be old news for three of my four readers. The Galápagos are a short string
But is it art?
It’s funny, now that I think about it, that I haven’t tackled this subject here before. I mean, what’s a blog for?
The photographer part of me has this little hate-affair with the “art world.” While opinions vary a great deal, it isn’t hard to find the prejudice that photography is not art, and this is distinctly noticeable right where I live, in a community that