>>Reading the life experiences of photographers I admire, it is clear that >>they simply do their own thing and be done with it. That notion finally >>hit home with me, but bloody hell, it took 40 years!
>that's true, but if you want to make money, you have to find the people who >like what you like. that is sometimes hard. lots of phatography schools >around here are obsessed with photographing with a message or being >different. everything has to make a social statement or be different from >anything else. i saw an exhibit recently as i passed by of a photographer >who took a picture of every trash can on NYC's 42nd St and posted that as a >collection. pictures were from the top down. Ah, yes. I should have mentioned that...."for the sort of photography I do". IE I do not do it for a living, and have no intention of wanting to do it for a living. The minute money starts entering the equation, I find the constraints almost intolerable. Certainly some of the fun goes away. Even some recent portrait commissions grinded on me. I felt hemmed in. Stills photography for me is a completely self-orientated thing and long may it be so! :-) Cotty ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________
