Tsk, tsk, you guys are very partial to BW images. I sometimes wonder why I like some BW images even more than their colour versions. I tend to feel guilty when this happens because we do live in a world of colour after all. The first has a strong graphic look. But the colour version is also strong and unusual even in a colour context. Nice work.
JR
The extension to which would have to be: so why even bother to make an image when the reality has to exist already, totally independently of one's input?
That's one of my problems with most landscape, of course: it's just opportunism and having a vague idea of how to catch what's sitting in front of one.
Then another problem is getting oneself into a rut, and simply repeating the same technique ad nauseam. I'm very aware of the danger, even within my own oeuvre, and it sticks in my eye like a thorn when it's somebody else caught in that trap, because another's sin is always more vile than one's own.
Frankly, I think it's a danger we face when we try to keep photographically busy doing something without really having any firm idea of what; if anything, I suppose that street allows for a greater degree of diversity in an individual's approach to image making, if only because the snapper has less control. But even then, he's trapped within the width of his vision. There are few geniuses.
Rob