Don't sweat it too much Mihai... there are people who feel that if it's been manipulated in any way then it is no longer a photograph in the "pure" sense of what photography is.... There are people who still think that digital is not real photography too.... are they right or wrong? Does it really matter? Just as we each have ideas about what art is, so we do about what photography is.... and each idea is different... I can see the photo in this manipulation... I see some of it has been kalaidescoped and swirled a bit, but I still see the photo.... Photographically based artwork in my mind.... and still very much at home in the photo gallery....

I am, therefore I create.......
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