A long hiatus. If you are reading this, I am eternally grateful that you chose to come back without seeing any updates for the last two months. A lot has happened since then (nothing major), that prevented me from posting anything. The thing is, I broke one of my new years resolutions in one of my last posts. If you are here often, you may recall that I made a new years resolution to not make plans - well, I sort of contradicted myself in another post and karma shot back at me by putting all these obstacles in my way. At least thats what I would like to believe. Truth is, I am going through a lull in my photography, and not sure exactly what to do to get out of it. I'm working on it, so stay tuned.... When you see this picture, you may immediately think of many others very similar to this shot by masters such as Michael Kenna and Josef Hoflehner. You may also think this is not very original, and its been done many times before. If I ever sold this photo or if it was ever displayed in a gallery, there would be art critics complaining that its plagiarism. Michael Kenna gave a short but meaningful reply to my friend Francesco'sinquiry into the subject. My thoughts? All those things said above are true, except that it's never been done by me, which makes it an 'original' for me. Other than that, I agree with Michael, in the sense that its a learning tool to find your own style, or a crutch (so to speak) till you can learn to stand on your own. The article explains it way better than I possibly could...
Your thoughts?