
What is a photograph and better yet what is a photographer? These terms have become very hard to define lately. For the last 200 years or so photography has been a beautiful and unique medium defined by its ability to portray a reality as seen through the photographers eyes. To be a photographer meant that you used a camera to capture a subject and then made a print, end of story. It was honest and simple but tragically those days are over. In the last few decades the advent and easy access to digital manipulating software has bred a new generation of image makers who rely heavily or fully on software to produce their artwork. This has resulted in the creation of a new artistic medium, digital-art, which for some reason has been recklessly grouped in with photography. Photography has now become a free for all genre of art with…
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