Well I am in the upper half of my 50's and I think such a statement is wrong. I guess that the person who said it never saw any of Edward Westons Green Peppers or the Jackson images of Yellowstone. I guess he did not get out much in the 60's and 70's and by his account I am a terrible photographer. For years I avoided taking images of people - two of my best shots are of people, but they will not be displayed to the public. No, they are not those kind of pictures - one of my late father and one of my wife. Both taken with the same camera but 20 years apart.
Edit: I don't take "good pictures" if you look at the ones I have submitted to National Geographics "Your shot" either. None of them have people in them - they all have the effects of people, but no people.
Of the images I have in PPG, I guess only one counts as a picture in this guys mind. Too bad the 60's and 70's did not open his mind and an open mind is terrible thing to waste. All of you macro, flower, scientific, landscape, astronomy, architecture etc. photographers should just hang it up. On the other hand (so to speak) the porn photographers must be the best "picture" takers on the planet. ----- Go figure.
Edit: I don't take "good pictures" if you look at the ones I have submitted to National Geographics "Your shot" either. None of them have people in them - they all have the effects of people, but no people. One of them got selected for the "Daily Dozen" too. Whoda thunk it.
MyShot - National Geographic Magazine
The Elitist - formerly known as PDL
Last edited by PDL; 07-03-2008 at 08:33 PM.
Reason: added in "edit" whoda thunk it