... nobody queried leonardo as to his reasons for using a particular brush, the pigments he selected for his palettes, or his choices of materials upon which he applied his colors, so why are there such questions concerning the photographer's digital manipulation of images ... world is world and mind is mind, and, other than for a very few who discuss whether a cat sealed in a box is alive or dead, the distinction is elemental to the structure of the universe ... all the photographer really wants is connect the two, what is and what we think, nothing more, and all that he or she uses in order to achieve this are merely tools ... for this image, the seven different filtering operations and blending of three layers in photoshop is only a footnote, as it should be ...
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