Stuff on Blogs

I mentioned in my previous post about how, for me, making an image into a print is important. It closes the circle so to speak. And would you believe that in bloggersphere, several other people are writing about those same thoughts. Mike Johnson had a piece on his blog about technical style and it included this statement:

Also, I haven't broached the subject of printing and how it affects image preparation. In a way, printing provides discipline, because it brings experimentation to an end—to hit the print button, you've got to decide what you're going to do to the image, but you also need to have reached the point where enough is enough and you're done.

Howard Grill on his blog wrote this calling the Print the Gold Standard:

But, for me, the most important end product is still the print…..the tangible, mountable, frameable, and ‘hangable’ hard copy print. There is still something special about being able to experience, examine and even pick up an image that carries with it the unwritten statement that it is the final common expression of an idea; that it is the best output that the artist was able to achieve. Simply put, there can be no question that the print is the way the artist meant for the image to be seen......

It is really funny how ideas or inventions or stuff on blogs sometimes surface from multiple locations at the same time.

The image at the top? Yes I've printed it but I don't think it is the final print. I'll put it up on Flickr or here on the blog because cyberspace seems to ephemeral, so momentary, but I don't think I'm ready to say that it is the "best output" I can achieve and release it as a print.