Buck Ward

"Thanks for this article, I really appreciated it. It is well written, with real substance and with excellent photographic illustrations."

As you imply, these debates will continue without resolution.  As in shouting matches between political conservatives and liberals, there will be few converts.  We each take our own particular stance, and it is unlikely to change very much.  Our point of view depends on how we see ourselves as photographers.  Each of us decides, unconsciously perhaps, who we are - a documentarian or an artist, or more likely a mixture of the two.  We use the latest in technology to represent how we see our world.  Photographic technology enables us to show