Read yesterday’s post to see what I’m talking about.

OK, so my first reaction was “geez, what’s wrong with that John Thomas guy?”  His comment:

John Thomas Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
@Nicole Morgenthau, who did he send in to re-shoot this disaster?
http://www.nicolemorgenthau.com/faces14.html
or this failure?
http://www.nicolemorgenthau.com/faces4.html
or this horrid frame?
http://www.nicolemorgenthau.com/lifestyle5.html

I mean, really – was that called for?  I mean, descriptions like “failure,” “horrid”, “disaster”: tastes in pictures are subjective, and I could easily call all three photos “fantastic” from a certain perspective.  Perhaps that was his point?  Nicole’s husband accusing others of outputting crap is his subjective call over their work, and it’s no more valid than John’s (maybe) tongue-in-cheek criticism of Nicole’s work.

But here’s the deal: two other photographers immediately agreed with him that Nicole’s work was crap.  Again, they may have meant “fine, it’s crap – prove to us that you have the skills and taste to give it such a name.