Comments on: Cameraless Botanical Photographs Captured by Electrical Pulses http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/01/cameraless-botanical-photographs-captured-by-electrical-pulse/ Travel Fashion Documentary Editorial & Portrait Photographers: Feature Shoot' Thu, 23 May 2013 20:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tom donald http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/01/cameraless-botanical-photographs-captured-by-electrical-pulse/comment-page-1/#comment-27542 tom donald Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:34:52 +0000 http://www.featureshoot.com/?p=18952#comment-27542 well I disagree with <b>paul rains</b> about the subject matter, plants are fascinating photographically, intimately connected to our daily existence, wildly diverse... Of course that doesn't mean it's easy to make impactful images of plants, and I think Robert Buelteman has done that. Wilfully decorative, these images are interesting. But the artist's statement seems to come from a... different planet! Planet San Francisco! well I disagree with paul rains about the subject matter, plants are fascinating photographically, intimately connected to our daily existence, wildly diverse… Of course that doesn’t mean it’s easy to make impactful images of plants, and I think Robert Buelteman has done that.
Wilfully decorative, these images are interesting.

But the artist’s statement seems to come from a… different planet!
Planet San Francisco!

]]> By: paul rains http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/01/cameraless-botanical-photographs-captured-by-electrical-pulse/comment-page-1/#comment-26138 paul rains Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:09:18 +0000 http://www.featureshoot.com/?p=18952#comment-26138 love the depth and unique quality of the images, your process is very intriguing but if you could change your subject matter away from the banal and contrived plant imagery i think you have a huge opportunity to go beyond what appears to be nothing more than a print someone hangs on the wall above the toilet. sorry to be so harsh but you really have found something, hate to see you not push the subject matter as much as you've pushed the medium. you've contradicted yourself. love the depth and unique quality of the images, your process is very intriguing
but if you could change your subject matter away from the banal and contrived plant imagery i think you have a huge opportunity to go beyond what appears to be nothing more than a print someone hangs on the wall above the toilet. sorry to be so harsh but you really have found something, hate to see you not push the subject matter as much as you’ve pushed the medium. you’ve contradicted yourself.

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