It seems as if winter is finally winding down with hints of spring in the air - melting snow, chirping birds and the sun came out from behind the clouds for a few hours on Saturday morning. To encourage the warmer weather I am posting an image of a day lily taken in my wife's garden last summer. I refer to this as my Georgia O'Keeffe tribute as she often painted flowers in close up, creating an image that was more abstract than realistic. Even though she was a painter, when I hear her name O'Keeffe makes me think of photography since she was married to Alfred Stieglitz.Stieglitz operated An American Place gallery in New York where he mounted photo exhibits and also acted as an agent for many great photographers of the day. Stieglitz was in the fore front of promoting photography as art at a time when many did not consider it a legitimate art form. Today most people accept photography as art - now the debate is whether digital imaging is a legitimate form of photography - seems we can always find something to argue about.
For more on Stieglitz http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/stieglitz/stieglitz.html
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