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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 334386" data-attributes="member: 9240">To each their own, Ron.  If you've read the beginning then you understand that I was looking to do something different here, and originally in B&W.  I understand the fact that not everyone will like it, but what I found is that if I just processed these as nice color snapshots they looked like, well, nice color snapshots.  While these treatments are by no means flattering to most, what I personally love about it is that it accentuates the details, lines, and in particular the flaws in everything.  For me, this drives the viewer to find the moment in each shot.  The extra deep, wry dimple on the smirk of a young girl in love as she listens to a guy go on and on.  The child in a mother's glasses.  An elbow bandage that is nearly invisible with normal treatment.  Deep lines and a chipped tooth of a Marine whose smile blanks out the horrors that likely filled parts of his life.   The furrowed brow of a girl shopping for vegetables leading you to wonder what exactly is on her mind besides, "What's for dinner?"The human condition is deeply flawed, and we have plenty of photographers masking that with false beauty and Photoshopped waistlines.  With normal treatment, easily half of these would hold no interest to me.  And it would be fair enough to say that they perhaps that means that it's not a "good photo".  But I believe each captures a human moment that might otherwise go missing.  Some of those moments may not deserve a like, but I believe they are worth more than a passing thought and "that was nice", which is why I'll continue this series in a similar manner.  And just to be clear, I'm perfectly OK with anyone or everyone not liking them.  I'm not defensive about it - I shoot for myself alone.  Some of these I could have turned into lovely shots worthy of a greeting card cover.  But that's not what I see when I raise the camera to my eye.  At least not in general.  Maybe that's why I like Infrared photography so much because it accentuates things that are not part of the norm, or twist your perception of what something is or isn't.  Not everyone is fond of it, and I get that.  They're often not "beautiful" in the traditional sense, and in some cases they take something that is normally rather serene and turn it into the foreboding - a comment I've heard repeatedly from the owner of a gallery where one of my IR shots is on display (at their request).  Nature and wildlife?  That is where I find/look for pure beauty, and because of that I tend to treat it with that regard, though subconsciously far more than making a conscious decision (I've thought about it more in typing this response than I've likely ever thought specifically about it).  So, no problem, Ron.  You can avoid this thread - I'm OK with that. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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